[Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:47:50AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> > On 11/10/2015 11:10 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > >False.  Linksys WRT1900ac ships with Linux.  See the bootlog for the
> > >OEM firmware here:
> > 
> > That boot log is almost two years old. Linksys no longer ship
> > OpenWRT
> 
> Do you have a reference that shows they no longer ship with GPL code?

The latest OEM firmware downloads from
http://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=148550 for both
hardware versions appear to show that they still use Linux:

FW_WRT1900AC_1.1.10.167514_prod.img:  u-boot legacy uImage, Linux-3.2.40, Linux/ARM, OS Kernel Image (Not compressed), 3900424 bytes, Tue Jun 16 14:15:13 2015, Load Address: 0x00008000, Entry Point: 0x00008000, Header CRC: 0x8127AFB8, Data CRC: 0xE28906FD

Linux-3.2.40
Uncompressing Linux...
 done, booting the kernel.
linuxrc
linuxrc
]init.d
inittab
init.d
inittab
service_init.sh
service_init.sh
6:01_init
01_init.sh


FW_WRT1900ACv2_2.0.7.167471_prod.img: u-boot legacy uImage, Linksys WRT1900ACv2 Router, Linux/ARM, OS Kernel Image (Not compressed), 4232371 bytes, Wed Jun 10 15:55:03 2015, Load Address: 0x00008000, Entry Point: 0x00008000, Header CRC: 0x887EFAB6, Data CRC: 0x13105B51

Uncompressing Linux...
 done, booting the kernel.
linux,phandle
linux,initrd-start
linux,initrd-end
kernel
alt_kernel
linux,phandle
linux,default-trigger
linux,code
linuxrc
linuxrc
hotplug2-init.rules
]init.d
inittab