Cisco acknowledges pirated iPhone software

Last week, after open source expert Armijn Hemel announced Cisco Systems' copyright infringement of the WIP300 iPhone software, the company admitted the mistake and is expected to resolve the issue smoothly. Linux in its blog, but it seems that Cisco can not finish this quickly.

John Earhardt, senior global communications manager for Cisco, said his company is addressing a flaw in the WIP300 iPhone software.

According to Earhardt, Cisco also verified other issues that open-source expert Armijn Hemel pointed out, but insisted that his group had complied almost everything in the copyright agreement, except for one. threads.

In fact, since October last year, Armijn Hemel had "made a word" of warning to Cisco about the iPhone's software problem, but at that time, he still had not determined exactly what kind of code to shared. But over the weekend, he sent it back to the network, the technical report clearly showed the type of code involved.

Hemel also affirmed that Cisco Systems' phones not only made a mistake and expected the company to make timely corrections. However, until now Cisco has not announced any changes and additions to those published sources.

According to Hemel, it is very likely that the relevant code does not create really unique technology, so like many other groups and individuals, Cisco does not pay attention to sharing that kind of code.

Still, the case still opens up bigger problems for the open source community. Shane Coughlan, coordinator of the European Free Software Foundation's Task Force, said that many of the licensees of the GPL (General Public License) did not comply fully with the terms of the agreement. Sometimes it is only because they do not apply specific documents to ensure proof and publish their further developments with public source code.

Do Duong