Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | Date | 19 May 2003 22:36:28 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 21:54, Mudama, Eric wrote: > On Monday, May 19, 2003 1:44 PM, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > I think on the one hand the question is also ... how far > > will a developer of one distro go to help another. I > > cannot say that I have had much success in the past to > > get a response from one of the 'big guys' to help me/us > > (the 'small guys') =) > > AFAIK, it doesn't matter if a distro helps another or not. As per Arjan van > de Ven's comment, I would think any code they release in terms of header > files based on original GPL source is itself GPL, and therefore > includable/usable/modifyable/redistributable by any distro. > > Red Hat (or insert other large distro vendor here) might not want to > explicitly "help" their little competitors, but they have appeared to solve > this problem (according to other posts) and there's no reason you can't base > your own work off of that... >
Was actually more referring to accepting patches to fix issues, or even just replying in general on the patch.
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Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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