[ILUG] FortiOS & Linux

[Niall O Broin]

On 19 Apr 2005, at 13:36, Daniel Goldsmith wrote:

> No, just spinning. initrd would be a tiny fraction of any firmware 
> code,
> so they are justified in claiming 'a very small piece' was affected by
> the suit.

Not spinning - lying. Fortinet apparently said (I'm just quoting the 
earlier mail here, hence apparently)

The action was taken because Fortinet^s End User License Agreement 
(EULA),
that ships with every FortiGate and other hardware system, did not
explicitly state that a very small piece of FortiOS firmware contains 
GPL
software.



That doesn't mention the suit. If their firmware includes the Linux 
kernel, and initrd, and zlib, and assorted other GPL code, and that's 
"a very small piece of FortiOS firmware" then the firmware must be 
rather big.



Niall