Mikrotik source

[al]

I think we can make a version of text that Paolo sent to Unixmedia to 
send to Mikrotik.

They are using GNU/Linux and they make changes and they don't providing 
to distribute their changes, then it could be judged as a violation of 
the GNU General Public License, which requires that source code should 
be distributed,  it is not possible make their software and market it 
without distributing the source code.

But I need some help, my english is not good and I don't know about 
legal expressions.

If you want, we're work in text in our wiki:
http://wiki.guifi.net/wiki/index.php/Contact_to_Mikrotik_to_stop_violate_GPL

Thanks.



2009/12/8 "Gustavo G. Mármol" <gustavo.marmol at gmail.com>
 >
 > I do not whether you had the chance to see the link below
 >
 > http://www.mikrotik.com/pdf/MT_Manual.pdf
 >
 > They said that:
 >
 > This software is provided by the regents and contributors “as is” and 
any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the 
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular 
purpose are disclaimed. bash, boa, dialog, e2fsprogs, fileutils, 
getty_ps, gzip, modutils, mount, net-tools, procps, shellutils, 
sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, textutils, updated, util-linux - For the above 
GPL licensed programs in accordance with the GPL license, Mikrotikls 
offers to organize a copy of the source code or it can be found on most 
standard Linux distributions. Write support at mikrotik.com for more 
information. glibc, libstdc++, ncurses, termcap - For the above LGPL 
licensed programs in accordance with the LGPL license, Mikrotikls offers 
to organize a copy of the source code or it can be found on most 
standard Linux distributions. Write support at mikrotik.com for more 
information.
 >
 > I think this is not to comply with the GPL terms...I do not how you 
see that...
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 > Gustavo G. Mármol.

al wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> We're using Mikrotik with RouterOS and we know is true that everything
> else is missing.
> 
> This is only a little and old part of a lot of GPL software there are
> selling without release source code.
> 
> http://www.routerboard.com/files/linux-2.4.31.zip
> 
> What can we do?
> 
>> mr schrieb:
>>> no, not without further information. What makes you think it's running
>>> linux? What router is it? (please give a link to the product page). If
>>> it's running linux, have you asked them for the source code?
>>>
>> Mikrotik OS is fully based on linux. some kernel sources are provided in
> the past for the RB532. but everything else
> (which is alot) is missing.
> 
>> Sebastian
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> On Feb 17, 2008 2:29 AM, André Machado <armc_2003 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi every body.
>>>>  I try to find the source code of RouterOS (Mikrotik) but can't get any
>>>> notice about... some body knows?
> 
>