Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261452AbUJXLUt (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:20:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261446AbUJXLS1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:18:27 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.204]:37860 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261444AbUJXLOV (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:14:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Ouqv0fNZS4yMmYCTm+81UsAOqzc+qyZsbXJcYZFMyZxU6gjuL5Y6t+3YQWj8icvCcQhQr/HtiJSVqZDKbRQEjE/7JI5a/pXFMbz0QCwvIO2gls/wSvxa3fedNKj5xDV6hqg0WCCS+s5104zwvj/kCfjy2TK8HybNilUOy0RQEBE= Message-ID: <35fb2e5904102404144bf9366a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:14:21 +0100 From: Jon Masters Reply-To: jonathan@jonmasters.org To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout Cc: Kernel Mailing List , bstowell@sco.com In-Reply-To: <417B397D.2070106@drdos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <35fb2e590410221714205fe526@mail.gmail.com> <41799BEE.1030104@drdos.com> <35fb2e59041022175758ece5f9@mail.gmail.com> <4179E136.1090201@drdos.com> <417B397D.2070106@drdos.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 979 Lines: 24 On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 23:11:25 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > I won't be "re-writing" anything. I've written something different that > takes all the Linux device drivers, application layer, and a handful > of file systems, and drops out most of the core of Linux, and these > drivers I suspect will get rewritten over time. Are you shipping or providing this to customers? > Since it's all open source anyway, doesn't really matter. You must, of course, be aware of your GPL obligations if you were to be shipping such a system to the world? I would hate to hear that you were violating the GPL yourself Jeff. In fact, let's go one stage further with this - Jeff Merkey, *prove* you're not in violation. Jon. - 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/