Re: A All Linux Devices story has been mailed to you!

["Ravi Ananth Giri K." <ravigiri@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 05, 07:05:46 PM (Thursday), or Thereabouts, Nobody wrote:
>> Wipro has developed a large number of IP (intellectual property) for various embedded products. These ready-made IPs benefit customers as they save time and cost. 

I'm a trifle confused on this issue...

If a company is using Linux as it's embedded platform, won't
any and all improvements/modifications they make to the source
become GPLed?

There was a writeup somewhere about how Windriver Systems decided on
BSD Unix due to this concern.

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