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Note: Mikrotik are violating the GPL (at least in spirit, by having you request sources by mail instead of just publishing them) by shipping RouterBoards/Router
by q3k 9y ago
Note: Mikrotik are violating the GPL (at least in spirit, by having you request sources by mail instead of just publishing them) by shipping RouterBoards/RouterOS without any Linux sources. You might want to take this into consideration before spending money with them.
(they even ship their rootfs with proprietary kernel modules that are marked as license: GPL so that they don't taint the kernel, ie for their bandwidth test)
- Hello71 9y agothe "spirit" of GPL is not "everything must be on GitHub". from the start, the GPL allowed distribution on physical media. given that in 1989, the state of the art in file distribution was Usenet, and given that even today, Stallman allegedly still uses his wget contraption, it is safe to say that Stallman did not in fact envision that all software under the GPL must be distributed online.