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 While Cisco is complaining about Apple using their trademark on the Cisco iPhone, Cisco is in turn infringing on the GPL....interesting. 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. 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? 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 Sean Waite Sean Waite -----Original Message----- From: "Chris Schumann" <cschumann at twp-llc.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:23:41 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux, GPL, Source code, and use? > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:14:53 -0600 > From: "Sean Waite" <swaite at sbn-services.com> > So, then the question is, don't these companies have to make readily > available the source code to what they have done? Generally they are not > selling the OS, just a subscription or support. But to get the actual > software you have to purchase a support contract, which to me seems like > they are in fact selling it. Yes they do. And Cisco apparently keeps getting in trouble for not making their modified source available. Just enter cisco linux gpl into Google and on the first page are articles from 2003 and 2007. Chris _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list [http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070221/90c74774/attachment-0001.htm