Re: Cyclades Router OS License

[Luiz Felipe <luiz@grupocarvalho.com.br>]

Arnt Karlsen wrote:

> On Tue, 03 May 2005 10:04:56 -0300, Luiz wrote in message 
> <[🔎] 427776F8.3070907@grupocarvalho.com.br>:
>
>  
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> > 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.
>
>  
By what i see, any hardware which i could program an OS would be nice, 
because i don't  want to do advanced features.

But i mean: a complete router, not an board like PC300 or using Linux 
Router features. It has almost every implementation already done.

[]'s

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Atenciosamente,
Luiz Felipe de souza Gomes
Network Administrator