[Asterisk-Users] GPL Violations (Was: Advice on OS Choice)

[Julien Levi]

Jason Becker wrote:
> 
> I also think GPL violations are rare. But there was a highly publicized 
> alleged violation by Cisco/Linksys:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/6/7/164
> 
> To be honest I don't even know the end of that story (if it has 
> ended)... probably some bureaucratic snafu.
> 

AFAIK Linksys admitted their error and published the source, including 
the full build environment.

http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp

This has resulted in a number of open source firmware projects that add 
features to the router in question and other Linksys appliances that use 
Linux.

Linksys/Cisco are now seen as one of the better companies with respect 
to the gpl.