I just got my new router; it warmed my heart to see the following right on front of the box:
This product may contain material licensed to you under the GNU General Public License or other open-source software licenses. Upon request, open-source software source code is available at cost from Linksys for at least three years from the product purchase date. For detailed license terms and additional information look at www.linksys.com/gpl/.
Who would have thought that the three-year clause was still being used in this day and age? (No need to write to them to get the source code, by the way: it’s available through that link.)
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It is nice to see people complying with the GPL. It would be nicer still if they did it without the FSF taking action against them in order to get a tarball that still doesn’t cover everything the device’s kernel is running. :)
http://lwn.net/Articles/50985/
3/10/2006 @ 8:14 am