[Fwd: Re: Google are using linux kernel - what do you know about the source?]

[Chris Malton <chrism@cjsoftuk.dyndns.org>]

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From: Chris Malton <chrism@DONOTSPAMMEcjsoftuk.dyndns.org>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Subject: Re: Google are using linux kernel - what do you know about the source?
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:57:31 +0100
Message-ID: <4654727B.8070506@DONOTSPAMMEcjsoftuk.dyndns.org>

And where, may I ask, does one find the source of Google's modified 
kernel? (At least, the unmodified bits!)

Chris


Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:50:35PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote:
>   
>> El Wed, 23 May 2007 16:23:44 +0200, Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars@gmail.com> escribió:
>>
>>     
>>> 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
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