“AVM Computersystems had sought legal sanction to prevent Cybits
from making changes to the code that is used in its routers, in
particular code covered by the GPL in its popular Fritz!Box
product.According to the Free Software Foundation Europe, this code
comes from the Linux kernel and is thus open to modification,
provided the changes are made available to anyone to whom the code
is then distributed.
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