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Yes, that is kind of the fucking point of GPL.

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>Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on open source code licensed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1. The legal complaint from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) seeks access to the SmartCast source code so that Vizio customers can make changes and improvements to the platform, something that ought to be possible for code distributed under the GPL. On Thursday, California Superior Court Judge Sandy Leal issued a tentative ruling in advance of a hearing, indicating support for part of SFC's legal challenge. The tentative ruling is not a final decision, but it signals the judge's inclination to grant the SFC's motion for summary adjudication, at least in part.

Yes, that is kind of the fucking point of GPL. Archive: https://archive.today/eHFRS From the post: >>Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, which is allegedly based on open source code licensed under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1. The legal complaint from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) seeks access to the SmartCast source code so that Vizio customers can make changes and improvements to the platform, something that ought to be possible for code distributed under the GPL. On Thursday, California Superior Court Judge Sandy Leal issued a tentative ruling in advance of a hearing, indicating support for part of SFC's legal challenge. The tentative ruling is not a final decision, but it signals the judge's inclination to grant the SFC's motion for summary adjudication, at least in part.
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WRT54-GL (it used to just be the WRT54-G but later versions had -L as well due to them specifying that they actually had "Linux" stuff in them). I owned many and ran a TON of different firmware's on them to unlock them to do far more than marketed.

Companies should have looked at the WRT54G and said "well shit, that's fucking amazing. We can build something then let the community mod the hell out of it and make a shit load of money and never maintain the software again". It's not like they got subscriptions for the devices or something... Nope, they did what every company does. Tried to kill it. Fucking weak.