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From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:46:42 -0400
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To: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Cc: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>, weigelt@metux.de, Linux Embedded Maillist <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, James Chapman wrote:
> David VomLehn wrote:
>> Amen, brother. I'm fortunate in that I work for an organization that is
>> quite good about enforcing code reviews, specifically, the QA organization
>> is empowered to reject changes that do not have code review notes. I also
>> have a fairly broad scope, so I'm in on code reviews for a number of open
>> source components. At each such review, one of my criteria is whether the
>> change is suitable for pushing back to the appropriate community. This is
>> not necessarily a short-term way to make friends, but the long-term effects
>> will be good both for the company and for the open source community in
>> general.
>>
>> Now, if we can only get the time to actually push all the backlogged fixes
>> out...
>
> Er, is that GPL or LGPL code that you're modifying? If so, you *have* to
> push those code changes out (make them available to others), whether you
> think people will be interested or not!

umm, not really.  only if (1) he gives a binary to someone and (2)
they ask him for the source.  if he doesnt distribute or no one asks,
he doesnt have to do squat.
-mike