Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Gwe, 2004-10-01 at 16:59, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> And the written offer is in the welcome email *now* but probably wasn't
> until I hassled them. 

Well fine, you can't magically fix mistakes in documentation. You'd also
I think find the law took the same view. 

> *After that* you get a `welcome email' containing the written offer.
> Sorry, but I have the binaries once I walk out the shop.  Where's my
> written offer?  What do I do if I bought one and got it shipped to
> France and so it won't `phone home'?

You know I regularly hear people talking about the "spirit of the
license", but that goes in both directions. From discussions my own
impression is that in this case they may or may not have forgotten to
put it in the manual but they've done their best to be compliant and
they have no desire not to be compliant.


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