Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261659AbVDSUhy (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:37:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261663AbVDSUhx (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:37:53 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:29351 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261659AbVDSUhp (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:37:45 -0400 Message-ID: <42656319.6090703@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:59:21 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-os@analogic.com CC: Lennart Sorensen , Karel Kulhavy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL violation by CorAccess? References: <20050419175743.GA8339@beton.cybernet.src> <20050419182529.GT17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 23 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Violation? They proudly reply in their article in > http://www.linuxdevices.com > that they use Linux, that they embedded a version > of Red Hat, etc. > > It's likely that they didn't modify anything in the kernel and > just used some stripped-down C-libraries to make everything fit. Right. They're distributing products licensed under the GPL, so sections 3-a and 3-b of the GPL apply. Thus they can either a) accompany it with the source code, or b) accompany it with a written offer to give any third party a copy of the source code. Chris - 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/