GPL and embedded linux Re: [oclug] Disintermediate the telephone company

[Greg]

Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> *) They are either skating on thin ice, or have found a GPL loophole. They
> are making source available (only) to purchasers of their firmware - then
> taking punative action on any who redistribute the source.

I do not know Sveasoft at all...

DistroCorp could distribute Linux under GPL, plus its own code under a 
different license.

DistroCorp could distribute, carelessly or deliberately, Linux plus its 
own code;  then, intitiate legal action regardless of merit, in the 
expectation that a small business or hobbyist would have no resources to 
  reply.  Sort of like a SLAPP suit, or a terrorism persecution, or RIAA 
leaning on kids.

Greg