Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935278AbXEWQwi (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 12:52:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763294AbXEWQwW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 12:52:22 -0400 Received: from z2.cat.iki.fi ([212.16.98.133]:43929 "EHLO z2.cat.iki.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761820AbXEWQwV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 12:52:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:52:20 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio To: Gergo Szakal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Google are using linux kernel - what do you know about the source? Message-ID: <20070523165220.GA20047@mea-ext.zmailer.org> References: <20070523162344.e8847387.bastyaelvtars@gmail.com> <20070523165035.8e3db756.diegocg@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070523165035.8e3db756.diegocg@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1644 Lines: 40 On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:50:35PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Wed, 23 May 2007 16:23:44 +0200, Gergo Szakal escribi?: > > > Greetings to all list-members! > > > > Recently I have read that Google are selling enterprise hardware that > > is running a modified version of the Linuk kernel [1]. I decided to ask > > them whether the source is available. I did this via the question form > > they offered. > > http://code.google.com/mirror/gsa.html Gerco, Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ There you will notice that use of Linux KERNEL does not mean that your must publish sources for your proprietary application, or to make it easy for somebody to make a distribution competeting with yours. People like Oracle have realized this a long ago, and are selling their commercial products also for Linux platform. Google has made available all parts of the system that they are obliged under GPL to make available. Perhaps person supplying the reply from Google didn't quite understand what the product is, and that it has lots of components where you can get sources for, although nothing exiting and special happens in them. A better reply from Google would have been: "The GSA is made of a branded PC hardware, Linux operating system (sources of components available) plus proprietary Google search engine suite." /Matti Aarnio - 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/