Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited

[Edward Dore <edward.dore () freethought-internet co uk>]

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 () 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