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Originally Posted by peterbbb
Why would they do this?
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They were supposed to do this for all the open source code they use when the device was released. Some vendors won't do this without the threat of a lawsuit. This does not generally happen with Linux, but the authors of BusyBox are more active in protecting their copyright and have actually sued several times. So far as I know, all these suits have been settled before trial in favour of BusyBox - since this isn't a grey area of copyright law and the infringer's would certainly loose at trial.