Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10 | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:14:29 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> So, then, just to satisfy my curiosity, how long until users of Linux in > the U.S.A. will no longer be allowed to download new kernels?
Potentially about 12 months after the SSSCA is passed. At which point you may well find only a binary only OS with enforced copy management is legal in the USA.
> I guess I was wrong about the Linux kernel being Open Source and freely > available and distributable.
It is, subject to the law of the various countries concerned.
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