Re: [OT] Belkin Bluetooth Access Point GPL violation

[Timothy Miller]

Petr Titera wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    I've try to look at firware image and it really seems that they do 
> not use modules in kernel and that bluetooth drivers are compiled in. So it
> really seems that they should either distribute source for their stack 
> or do not distribute it at all.


Even if they did use modules, the module interface is not necessarily a 
GPL barrier.  The fact that the unit becomes useless if you remove the 
kernel or the bluetooth drivers means that it's a complete work and not 
merely an aggregate.

I don't understand why companies think they can get away with this kind 
of intellectual property theft.

I also don't understand why they don't use BSD instead.  They wouldn't 
have ANY of these problems.

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