“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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