GPL violations (Re: Fwd: Αποδελτίωση 12-09-2005 με 18-9-2005)

[Christos Ricudis]

Spiros Bolis wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Christos Ricudis wrote:
>  
>
>>Ta ypoloipa pou einai GPL-covered, dhladh kernel kai kapoia gnu tools,
>>ta dinoun se CD an
>>    
>>
>[..]
>ok, enta3ei, as poyme oti me kapoio tropo ta sources einai enta3ei. Se
>sxesh me to kleidwma ths egkatastashs panw sto ID toy diskoy? den exeis
>dikaiwma na anadianemeis to GPL kwdika? Den exeis dikaiwma na ton
>xrhsimopoieis? Edw soy kleidwnoyn olo to leitoyrgiko kai soy lene
>"reinstall".
>
(to gegonos oti to kleidwma ths egkatastashs panw sto ID tou diskou 
einai geloio, einai asxeto).

Kat'arxas to na peis oti "exw ena proion poy apoteleitai apo 90% 
proprietary kwdika kai 10%  GPL covered kwdika, kai 8elw
*apo ayto eidika* to proion na anadianeimw to GPL /bin/ls pou 8a 
mporousa fysika na to brw opoudhpote allou" einai ligo trabhgmeno apo ta 
mallia, oxi?

Sxedon o,tidhpote xrhsimo sto mikrotik einai proprietary, apo to login 
mexri to shell, tous drivers kai ta wireless-tools tous, kai den exeis 
dikaiwma na ta anadianeimeis oute na ta xrhsimopoihseis eksw apo tous 
orous ths adeias tous. Ki an akomh 8eleis nte kai kala na ta 
anadianeimeis, mporeis na kaneis mount to mikrotik filesystem sou se ena 
allo mhxanhma, na pareis to /bin/ls kai to /usr/lib/libncurses.so kai na 
ta anadianeimeis.

Ama 8es PRAGMATIKA na exeis kammia pi8anothta na breis GPL violations 
sto mikrotik (an kai den tous exw gia toso hli8ious), psakse gia 
pragmata pou einai genikws rarely re-implemented - des an p.x. to 
BGP/OSPF implementation tous exei kammia sxesh me to quagga.

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