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The Register: BT’s Home Hub Runs on Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 23, 2007

“BT’s wireless broadband router Home Hub may be in breach of the
terms of Linux’s General Public License, after it emerged the
device runs on open source code.

“The telco was reported to gpl-violations.org on 5 January.
Under the General Public License companies must publish the code
they are using. In its simplest terms, the license says you can use
free software as you like, but must credit where it came from and
publish improvements you make to it…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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