Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265252AbTF1PEU (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:04:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265261AbTF1PEU (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:04:20 -0400 Received: from www.wireboard.com ([216.151.155.101]:40100 "EHLO varsoon.wireboard.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265252AbTF1PET convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:04:19 -0400 To: Svein Ove Aas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL References: <1056780761.10255.10.camel@granite> <200306281712.15947.svein.ove@aas.no> From: Doug McNaught Date: 28 Jun 2003 11:18:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: Svein Ove Aas's message of "Sat, 28 Jun 2003 17:12:13 +0200" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 17 Svein Ove Aas writes: > l?rdag 28. juni 2003, 17:05, skrev Doug McNaught: > > AIUI, they need to supply full source, not just a patch against code > > you get from someone else. > > Now that's just silly. But legally required by the GPL. > The kernel is *how* many megabytes? > And it's very easily available. You may be right, but if you are it's for very > legalistic reasons that don't matter in real life. You're right that it's not likely to be a problem in this case. -Doug - 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/