Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox +code | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:32:36 -0500 |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:14:43 GMT, Alan Cox said:
> 3. "If you distribute the source then I won't supply you updates"
Intellectually interesting, but somewhat moot, as at least one person has quoted Sveasoft's *actual* requirement as:
"If you distribute the *non-GPL* pieces of our pre-release, then we won't supply you updates".
which is *totally* another kettle of fish (and they're totally in their rights to do so, *as long as the non-GPL parts are really non-GPL*). I've leave others to argue about the commingling of GPL and non-GPL and whether their drivers are NVidia-ish (where the closed parts are quite arguably *not* derivative works, and there's a GPL'ed shim), and therefore more-or-less tolerated, or if their "non-GPL" code is actually derivative of some GPL kernel code (and thus a big no-no)....
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