Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161036AbVLWUQb (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:16:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161035AbVLWUQb (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:16:31 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.89]:48886 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161024AbVLWUQa (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:16:30 -0500 Message-ID: <43AC5B14.2090509@mac.com> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:16:20 -0700 From: Scott Mansfield User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Macintosh/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Henderson CC: Ben Slusky , "Robert W. Fuller" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML Kernel , Kyle Moffett , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 894 Lines: 21 >>Developer replies that the source code will be provided >>only to paying customers: > > > Not really. Developer does make the bizarre statement that "paid > customers" are entitled to source code, but doesn't say nobody else is. > And Developer says at the same time he will make source code available to > the person who requested it. The problem is that he doesn't actually do > it, and is never heard from again. Call me crazy but if one requests a copy of the source only to never hear from the developer, is that not a direct violation of the GPL? To me this sounds like the developer is walking a pretty fine line. Cheers, Scott - 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/