Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261301AbVDSXiG (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:38:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261689AbVDSXiG (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:38:06 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:64468 "EHLO zcars04e.ca.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261301AbVDSXhu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:37:50 -0400 Message-ID: <42659620.5050002@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:37:04 -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> <42656319.6090703@nortel.com> 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: 843 Lines: 21 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > No. Accompany it with a written offer to __provide__ the source > code for any GPL stuff they used (like the kernel or drivers). > Anything at the application-level is NOT covered by the GPL. > They do not have to give away their trade-secrets. GPL'd applications would still be covered by the GPL, no? If I buy their product, I should be able to ask them for the source to all GPL'd entities that are present in the system, including the kernel, drivers, and all GPL'd userspace apps. Any *new* apps that they wrote they would of course be free to keep private. - 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/