Bird vs Quagga revisited
Edward Dore
edward.dore at freethought-internet.co.uk
Sun Sep 2 10:44:24 UTC 2012
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
Freethought Internet
On 1 Sep 2012, at 09:12, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Edward Dore <edward.dore at freethought-internet.co.uk> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> It might be a case of you need to ask them for it. Would be
>> interesting to see which bits are GPL.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Bjørn
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