Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261668AbUKIUsd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:48:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261669AbUKIUsd (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:48:33 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:21703 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261668AbUKIUs3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:48:29 -0500 Message-Id: <200411092048.iA9KmPvY016465@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.1 10/11/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: davids@webmaster.com Cc: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox +code In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:23:08 PST." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_534057144P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:48:25 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1649 Lines: 42 --==_Exmh_534057144P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:23:08 PST, David Schwartz said: > Umm, they restrict you from distributing. You don't get new updates if you > distribute. A possibly important legal point is that they never actually restrict your rights to distribute everything they've given you. Barring a contract that *obligates* them to provide you with future binary updates, I can't see much to hang a GPL violation on. They never stop you from distributing your current stuff - they merely don't provide you with *future* (and quite possibly never-actually-happening) software. 100% of what you *do* receive from them you can redistribute. Yes, it's sleazy, but barring a contractual obligation, probably not illegal. (If they're not shipping *future* updates out of the kindness of their heart, without a contract obligating it, then I'm in deep shit because I haven't shipped the LSM I said I'd be posting, but which hasn't happened because of other problems I had with -rc1-mm3. Think about whether you want to be in that boat... ;) --==_Exmh_534057144P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFBkS0YcC3lWbTT17ARAs6TAKDbLW3PEBqwEEAIvQwxWW6ovEpUegCgiNLE DqtdajgEN6vAKcW6lIpYH1o= =nqaA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_534057144P-- - 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/