Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262776AbTESUWw (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 16:22:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262783AbTESUWw (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 16:22:52 -0400 Received: from cpt-dial-196-30-180-143.mweb.co.za ([196.30.180.143]:63360 "EHLO nosferatu.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262776AbTESUWP (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 16:22:15 -0400 Subject: RE: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: "Mudama, Eric" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , David Ford , William Lee Irwin III , KML In-Reply-To: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C102E0D3AA@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> References: <785F348679A4D5119A0C009027DE33C102E0D3AA@mcoexc04.mlm.maxtor.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-pCIpbQM0/bdMfYRZIT9N" Organization: Message-Id: <1053376587.7862.72.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 19 May 2003 22:36:28 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1860 Lines: 58 --=-pCIpbQM0/bdMfYRZIT9N Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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') =3D) >=20 > 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. >=20 > Red Hat (or insert other large distro vendor here) might not want to > explicitly "help" their little competitors, but they have appeared to sol= ve > this problem (according to other posts) and there's no reason you can't b= ase > your own work off of that... >=20 Was actually more referring to accepting patches to fix issues, or even just replying in general on the patch. --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-pCIpbQM0/bdMfYRZIT9N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+yUBLqburzKaJYLYRAvt/AJ0TXyif/U0B4D0mUiFROeuDPYR3lACfWUIt BDYnJSxITp3TcL0lqjfW1a8= =EI8n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pCIpbQM0/bdMfYRZIT9N-- - 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/