[155986] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Dore)
Sun Sep 2 06:45:21 2012
From: Edward Dore <edward.dore@freethought-internet.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 11:44:24 +0100
In-Reply-To: <87fw7240wx.fsf@nemi.mork.no>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The Linux Kernel itself may be GPL (which I wasn't debating), however I =
see no reason why MikroTik's MPLS stack couldn't work in a similar way =
to the closed source NVidia driers where my understanding is that a GPL =
stub loads a binary blob.
Have you asked MikroTik for a copy of the source?
Edward Dore=20
Freethought Internet=20
On 1 Sep 2012, at 09:12, Bj=F8rn Mork wrote:
> Edward Dore <edward.dore@freethought-internet.co.uk> writes:
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>> They used to publish the source for their 2.4 kernel on
>> routerboard.com (in fact, it's still available at
>> http://routerboard.com/files/linux-2.4.31.zip), but I've not seen
>> anything for the 2.6 kernel however and the routerboard.com site was
>> redesigned a little while ago, seemingly without the links as far as =
I
>> can tell.
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>> It might be a case of you need to ask them for it. Would be
>> interesting to see which bits are GPL.
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> There is no doubt that *all* bits of the Linux kernel are GPL. =
Whether
> vendors respect this is another question. But Mikrotik most certainly
> cannot distribute the Linux kernel, modified or not, without also
> providing the full source code.
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> Bj=F8rn
