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> OTOH, what's to stop Cisco's firmware blob from including all sorts of GPL'd software, died together by a proprietary program? I assume that you mean officia
by praptak 14y ago
> OTOH, what's to stop Cisco's firmware blob from including all sorts of GPL'd software, died together by a proprietary program?
I assume that you mean officially GPL'd, not secretly incorporated by Cisco (although this type of abuse also gets detected.) GPLv3 forbids tivoization, so GP would definitely be better off with a router running GPL'd software. With BSD there is nothing preventing the hardware vendor from locking the software away from users.
- einhverfr 14y agoI don't know about that. Let's say the router is running a GPL'd light-weight web server. Just because you can't lock the person out doesn't mean that the component may be effectively replaceable. Otherwise you could never effectively use any GPL v3 software in embedded devices unless you add additional update paths.