Deutsche Telekom W700V GPL violation

[Sebastian Gottschall]

Thomas Charron schrieb:
> 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. 
no i dont think they have line by line copied it. but even if they just 
did it partially it results in a gpl derived work
>  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?
>   
W700V? yes. 2