Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261768AbVDTRVp (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:21:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261763AbVDTRTl (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:19:41 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:61610 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261742AbVDTRSa (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:18:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:18:06 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Karel Kulhavy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL violation by CorAccess? Message-ID: <20050420171806.GB3372@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050419175743.GA8339@beton.cybernet.src> <20050419182529.GT17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050419182529.GT17865@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1501 Lines: 31 Hi! > > I have seen a device by CorAccess which apparently uses Linux and didn't find > > anything that would suggest it complies to GPL, though I had access to the > > complete shipping package. Does anyone know about known cause of violation by > > this company or should I investigate further? > > Well what is the case if you use unmodified GPL code, do you still have > to provide sources to the end user if you give them binaries? I would > guess yes, but IANAL. > > As far as I can tell their system is a geode GX1 so runs standard x86 > software. Maybe they didn't have to modify any of the linux kernel to > run what they needed. Their applications are their business of course. > It looks like they use QT as the gui toolkit, which I don't off hand > know the current license conditions of. Then there is the web browser > and such, which has it's own license conditions. Of course for all I > know their user manual has an offer of sending a CD with the sources if > you ask. Does anyone actually have their product that could check for > that? QT is GPLed, IIRC. Not LGPL-ed, meaning you can't link it with proprietary application without license from trolltech. Pavel -- Boycott Kodak -- for their patent abuse against Java. - 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/