A cikin 'yan shekarun nan, Linux ta shahara sosai tare da na'urori da aka saka, wanda a lokuta da yawa ba bisa doka ba suke amfani da Linux don ƙirƙirar samfuran gasa da ke keta lasisi. Mun riga mun san cewa an buga Linux a ƙarƙashin lasisin GNU GPL, tare da duk abin da wannan yake nunawa, da kyau, ga alama wannan za a iya keta lasisi ta sanannen masana'anta: Symantec.
Wannan shine wani injiniyan Google da masanin tsaro na Linux ya bayyana. Sunansa Matthew Garrett kuma ya nuna takamaiman samfurin Norton Core na'ura mai ba da hanya tsakanin hanyoyin sadarwa a matsayin mayar da hankali wannan keta lasisi ta amfani da Linux da kuma rashin cika wasu buƙatu waɗanda lasisin GNU GPL ya ƙunsa. Mai amfani da hanyar sadarwa mai ɗauke da wannan fasalin yana aiki tare da sanannen tsarin tushen Linux, OpenWRT wanda yawancin waɗannan kayan haɗin sadarwar da aka saka suke aiki dashi.
Symantec ya yi amfani da damar OpenWRT da Kit na Ci gaban Software na QCA (QSDK), wani aikin bude hanya. Dukansu zaɓi ne mai kyau don gina samfurin gasa kamar Norton Core Router, amma wani lokacin masana'antun da masu kera ire-iren waɗannan samfuran suna cin gajiyar aikin al'umma kuma basa girmama wasu sharuɗɗa. A wannan yanayin, kasancewa ƙarƙashin lasisin GPLv2, zai nuna cewa Symantec ya raba lambar Norton Core Router tare da duniya, amma ba haka ba.
Wannan yana daga cikin sharadin lasisi masu ƙuntatawa kamar GPL a kan sauran ƙarin izini kamar BSD. Wannan shine dalilin da ya sa wasu kamar Apple suka zaɓi tsarin kamar FreeBSD da makamantansu don tsarin su, saboda ta wannan hanyar ana basu tabbacin samun damar ƙirƙirar lambar rufe akan su kuma ba lallai bane su raba ta. Garrett ya gano, amma tabbas ba wani sabon abu bane, an riga anyi shi kuma abin takaici, ina tsammanin sauran masana'antun zasu ci gaba da yi.