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Re: installing on linksys WRT54G?



> A more interesting question is whether shipment of the Broadcom driver in
> binary firmware distributions for the device violates the GPL.  Until
> Cisco forced Linksys to comply with the GPL at all, the firmware was
> supplied *only* as a single binary image.
> 
Once the source was opened for everything except the binary-only kernel
module, they became GPL compliant. The driver is still only a binary,
but that is allowed currently.

-Steve



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