On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:19:46 +0000, Jeff Haran said: > There are lots of companies with closed source Linux drivers. My former > employer Brocade Communications Systems wrote, maintained and shipped their > Fiberchannel stack Linux drivers consisting of tens of thousands of lines of > closed source code for years and though I am no longer with that company to my > knowledge they continue to do so today They appear to be in full compliance with the GPL: http://www.brocade.com/services-support/drivers-downloads/oscd/FabricOS510.page Note that there's nothing that prohibits a company from shipping a product that has an open Linux kernel, and the "tens of thousands of lines of closed source code" is all in userspace. So unless you have actual proof that the Brocade switches have *kernel* code that hasn't been offered to the users, they're not (as far as I can tell) doing anything illegal.
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