Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: UnitedLinux violating GPL? | Date | Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:55:21 +0100 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> said: > Anybody know where the source rpm for UnitedLinux kernel is? > [to be distinguished from kernel-source rpm] > > AFAICS they are not distributing source code to their published kernel > binaries... which is a very obvious GPL violation.
If the binary can be recreated from the source in the kernel-source RPM, they aren't in violation. Sure, having a look at the non-official patches they apply would be nice, but not mandated by GPL. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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