Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268317AbUJJPei (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:34:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268316AbUJJPei (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:34:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:23966 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268328AbUJJPe3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:34:29 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:34:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Sam Hocevar cc: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" , , Subject: Re: possible GPL violation by Free In-Reply-To: <20041010091215.GD1750@zoy.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1410 Lines: 37 On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Sam Hocevar wrote: > To carefully verify this, you need to have a Freebox user ask > Free for the Linux source code. No one else is entitled to do it. This is some serious misinformation, that needs to be corrected. Please take a look at your copy of the GPL, in particular section 3. It states that the distributor of the software has 3 options, the third one only for non-profit distribution, so not applicable here. This leaves Free with 2 options: 1) distribute the source together with the binaries, which they do not appear to be doing 2) distribute the source with an offer, for ANY 3rd party, to get the source code on request (they don't appear to be doing this either) In addition to this, I find the reasoning that "people rent the box, so we don't sell the software" to be very suspicious. Even if the boxes are only rented, the software on them is still being distributed! IANAL, of course, so YMMV ... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/