Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030271AbVJERMR (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:12:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030272AbVJERMR (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:12:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:62111 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030267AbVJERMQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:12:16 -0400 To: Emmanuel Fleury Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel ML Subject: Re: freebox possible GPL violation References: <20051005111329.GA31087@linux.ensimag.fr> <4343B779.8030200@cs.aau.dk> <1128511676.2920.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4343BB04.7090204@cs.aau.dk> <1128513584.2920.23.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4343C0DB.9080506@cs.aau.dk> <1128514062.2920.27.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4343C73E.9000507@cs.aau.dk> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:11:44 -0300 In-Reply-To: <4343C73E.9000507@cs.aau.dk> (Emmanuel Fleury's message of "Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:29:50 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 20 On Oct 5, 2005, Emmanuel Fleury wrote: > First, it is very arguable to say that they are "distributing" the > software as it does not comes with the FreeBox but is automatically > downloaded at each boot through the DSLAM network (which the user is not > supposed to know about). So if I tell you to download a Live CD using say bittorrent and don't tell you that this Live CD contains Linux the kernel because you're not supposed to know that, you're not entitled to get the sources? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/