Re: Cyclades Router OS License
On Tue, 03 May 2005 10:04:56 -0300, Luiz wrote in message
<[🔎] 427776F8.3070907@grupocarvalho.com.br>:
> Hi list,
>
> my firm recently purchased a Cyclades Router and i had seen that the
> OS that runs into the hardware is more expansive than the hardware
> itself.
>
> Cyclades' OS is a Linux. So, ins't Cyclades, by implications of GPL,
> forced to publish its sources ?
..by the terms of the GPL and copyright law, yes, to anyone they
distribute to. The 2 easy ways is slap it onto their web site, or ship
it on a cd with their hardware, if they wanna keep it "secret." ;o)
> I would like to make an OS for a router in my University's conclusion
> work, but I don't know the internals of an Router hardware, and i
> think that the only way to know this is getting the source of an OS.
..uh? Which router, which hardware, which router OS, which OS source?
..pls clarify _what_ you wanna do, so we can advice.
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.
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