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<p style="font-size: 10pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt;">Kind of funny, I
did as you said and found an article "Cisco's iPhone violates GPL, expert
says" -
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;435863114;fp;4194304;fpid;1</font>
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<div><font style="font-size: 10pt;"> </font></div><div><font
style="font-size: 10pt;">While Cisco is complaining about Apple using their
trademark on the Cisco iPhone, Cisco is in turn infringing on the
GPL....interesting. </font></div><div><font style="font-size: 10pt;">
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<font style="font-size: 10pt;">Basically it is as I suspected, Cisco has
found a great revenue stream. Get
the Linux geeks to write, update, manage,etc. the OS, and they can come in
and spend less time just modifying it than actually having to write their
own OS/IOS. </font></div><div><font style="font-size: 10pt;"> </font>
</div><p style="font-size: 10pt;"><font style="font-size: 10pt;">Now does
the
GPL work like this. Since they are using the Linux OS, and modifying to suit
their specific needs, couldn't I take their own source code and use it for
my own? Meaning take the source for the ACNS units and release my own Linux
Application and Content networking distro so long as it does not contain
other license code such as Websense?</font></div><div><font
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p.s. Of course this is all in theory, I don't know
a (#*@ thing about code, except for what I learned way back when on the
Radio Shack TSR-80<br> </font>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: "Chris Schumann" <cschumann@twp-llc.com><br>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org><br>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:23:41 -0600 (CST)<br>
Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux, GPL, Source code, and use?<br>
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> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:14:53 -0600<br>
> From: "Sean Waite" <swaite@sbn-services.com><br>
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> So, then the question is, don't these companies have to make readily<br>
> available the source code to what they have done? Generally they are
not<br>
> selling the OS, just a subscription or support. But to get the
actual<br>
> software you have to purchase a support contract, which to me seems
like<br>
> they are in fact selling it.<br>
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Yes they do. And Cisco apparently keeps getting in trouble for not making<br>
their modified source available. Just enter cisco linux gpl into Google<br>
and on the first page are articles from 2003 and 2007.<br>
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Chris<br>
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