That's one of the reasons Cisco switched from GPL to VXworks after they
bought Linksys.
bp
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On 4/7/2015 12:08 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
I thought they stopped making the source available because it made it
too easy for the counterfeit products. At least that's what I was
told about the SDK (which contained the source).
Call me crazy, but they could release whatever modifications they made
to GPL code and still create closed source binaries that run in
userspace to do whatever trade secret stuff they need to do. Isn't
that how Mikrotik does it?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/04/07/1740217/how-ubiquiti-networks-is-creatively-violating-the-gpl
