[j-nsp] GPL licensed software in juniper products

[Patrik Olsson]

On 2012-06-07 22:47, 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 ?
>

Even though the parts of the "world" still running is remnants of
FreeBSD, the kernel is altered to be a realtime kernel.
So I am not arguing the GPL part, more arguing the *BSD... it is more or
less FreeBSD...

Patrik