Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262108AbUKJTdb (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:33:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262110AbUKJTda (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:33:30 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:420 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262108AbUKJTdK (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:33:10 -0500 Message-Id: <200411101932.iAAJWaYF020344@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.1 10/11/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Alan Cox Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , davids@webmaster.com, 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 "Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:14:43 GMT." <1100110480.20555.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1100041582.16689.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1100110480.20555.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1688444104P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:32:36 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1446 Lines: 42 --==_Exmh_1688444104P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:14:43 GMT, Alan Cox said: > 3. "If you distribute the source then I won't supply you updates" Intellectually interesting, but somewhat moot, as at least one person has quoted Sveasoft's *actual* requirement as: "If you distribute the *non-GPL* pieces of our pre-release, then we won't supply you updates". which is *totally* another kettle of fish (and they're totally in their rights to do so, *as long as the non-GPL parts are really non-GPL*). I've leave others to argue about the commingling of GPL and non-GPL and whether their drivers are NVidia-ish (where the closed parts are quite arguably *not* derivative works, and there's a GPL'ed shim), and therefore more-or-less tolerated, or if their "non-GPL" code is actually derivative of some GPL kernel code (and thus a big no-no).... --==_Exmh_1688444104P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFBkmzUcC3lWbTT17ARAgOyAJ4uAlsoqZbSnuOauZxyhKk+PMHfCwCgzlLV aWMm6kb2c41QrGVb+eEVDmg= =2XPk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1688444104P-- - 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/