The Linux Kernel itself may be GPL (which I wasn't debating), however I see no reason why MikroTik's MPLS stack couldn't work in a similar way to the closed source NVidia driers where my understanding is that a GPL stub loads a binary blob.
Have you asked MikroTik for a copy of the source? Edward Dore Freethought Internet On 1 Sep 2012, at 09:12, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Edward Dore <edward.d...@freethought-internet.co.uk> writes: > >> They used to publish the source for their 2.4 kernel on >> routerboard.com (in fact, it's still available at >> http://routerboard.com/files/linux-2.4.31.zip), but I've not seen >> anything for the 2.6 kernel however and the routerboard.com site was >> redesigned a little while ago, seemingly without the links as far as I >> can tell. >> >> It might be a case of you need to ask them for it. Would be >> interesting to see which bits are GPL. > > There is no doubt that *all* bits of the Linux kernel are GPL. Whether > vendors respect this is another question. But Mikrotik most certainly > cannot distribute the Linux kernel, modified or not, without also > providing the full source code. > > > Bjørn
