If this is really not just a common underlying php framework issue,
it might be best to avoid any negative publicity.  In any event, has 
anyone verified the interface beyond the appearance?

Assuming that this is a license violation, I'm willing to bet that the 
6Wind company would donate some gear, hosting under contract, and/or 
money to the m0n0wall project in exchange for a special non-disclosure 
license.  The m0n0wall project would receive resources.  The company 
would save face before their customers and support the software pipeline 
that a critical portion of their product, and therefore business, is 
based off of.

While 6Wind needs to tow the line, there may be few reasons to 
negatively affect both parties when both can benefit from this situation.


Lee Sharp wrote:
> Timothy Taylor wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was rather surprised to discover a firewall that has an astonishingly
>> similar interface to m0n0wall
>> <http://www.6wind.com/PDF/prod/web-management/license.html> but without
>> any credit to Manuel et al. Should I be disturbed or surprised? I
>> haven't actually used the product, I just came across the pages during a
>> Google search on "snmp firewall rule".
> 
> Flagrant license violation.  From the m0n0wall license page;
> 
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
> 
> 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
> this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> 
> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> 
> They are in clear violation of #2.  Manuel has them by the balls.  I 
> think he can get damages, and force them to notify all customers. :)
> 
>             Lee
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