Deutsche Telekom W700V GPL violation

[Thomas Charron]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Sebastian Gottschall
<s.gottschall at newmedia-net.de> wrote:
> Thomas Charron schrieb:
>>  The could fairly easily be reusing the wireless tools for Linux
>> without changing them one little bit, as long as their operating
>> system simply provided identical API's.  That's not 'stealing sections
>> of the Linux kernel', however.
> the problem is that Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions are GPL licensed.
> so they can't be reused and compiled into a firmware without releasing
> the source, modification or any derived work to the public.

  And you think that they may have line by line copied them.  I
understand that.  However, further investigation should be done before
saying to the world, 'These guys are liars and cheats!'.  I believe
that SCO provided similar evidence that Linux had 'stolen code'
because of similarities like this.  Do you own one of these devices
out of curiosity?

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-- Thomas