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Subject: Re: UnitedLinux violating GPL?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Hubert Mantel <mantel@suse.de>
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On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:15, Hubert Mantel wrote:
> > In the opinion of many devlopers, the preferred form of the Linux kernel for
> > maintaining it is a set of individual patches against the closest
> > 'official' release, and not a tarball containing already-modified code. 
> 
> So you are saying that Alan Cox is violating the GPL since he releases his 
> -ac kernels only as one single monolithic patch against the vanilla tree, 
> not as individual patches (like Andrea Arcangeli does for example)?
> 
> I think the motivation for this ridiculous thread is very obvious.

I think Dave needs to type "man diff" 8)

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