[j-nsp] GPL licensed software in juniper products

Ian Bobbitt ibobbitt at grnoc.iu.edu
Thu Jun 7 17:04:22 EDT 2012


On Jun 7, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Thomas Eichhorn <te at te3networks.de> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>> has anybody here asked JNPR for the source code of the
>> GPL-licensed parts in their products? I currently just
>> wonder which all parts they have used and maybe if there
>> is some hidden web page containing that stuff.
> 
> Juniper control-plane operating system is *BSD, so carrying a Berkeley
> license, not GPL. Routing code is their own, and it wouldn't make such
> sense to add something GPL to that mix... may be they did, is there a
> component you think could be GPL ?
> 


Their AX411 access point line, for one:

% ssh root at myap
root at myap's password: 
# uname -a
Linux myap 2.6.21.5 #1 Tue Dec 7 05:54:10 EST 2010 mips64 unknown
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