Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262030AbUKJVXW (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:23:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262062AbUKJVVE (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:21:04 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:59403 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262055AbUKJVUc (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:20:32 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox +code Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:11:11 -0500 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: <419283EF.8050708@tmr.com> References: <87actqfigw.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org><87actqfigw.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> <200411092328.16426.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1100121115 19868 192.168.12.100 (10 Nov 2004 21:11:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Cc: Michael Poole , Kyle Moffett , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=3D=3Futf-8=3Fq=3FRapha=EBl_Rigo_LKML=3F=3D?= , Alan Cox , davids@webmaster.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Dmitry Torokhov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200411092328.16426.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1490 Lines: 31 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:14 pm, Michael Poole wrote: > http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3868 > > >>Post subject: I am a Sveasoft subscriber, can I redistribute? >>... >>The policy for pre-release firmware is different. You may choose to >>redistribute only those portions of pre-release firmware specifically >>covered by the GPL license. Those portions of the distribution that are >>separate additions developed by Sveasoft as part of a pre-release >>distribution may not be re-distributed. Redistribution of pre-release >>firmware that includes Sveasoft's non-GPL code will result in the >>termination of your subscription. >> > > > So it looks like they are in clear, unless those separate additions are > derived from GPLed software. > That web page seems pretty clear... some parts of the prerelease are non-GPL, you can distribute the GPL code as usual. Unless there is aome claim that the non-GPL parts are derived from GPL original source or contain GPL code, why shouldn't they restrict the distribution of their own code? -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/