From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:45:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20060104144540.GN19769@parisc-linux.org> References: <43AACF77.9020206@sbcglobal.net> <496FC071-3999-4E23-B1A2-1503DCAB65C0@mac.com> <1135283241.12761.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051223153541.GA13111@paranoiacs.org> <20060104110929.GH4898@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20060104115422.GA2562@mail.shareable.org> <20060104131805.GM4898@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20060104141607.GA12824@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Harald Welte , Ben Slusky , Steven Rostedt , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, legal@lists.gnumonks.org, "Robert W. Fuller" , LKML Kernel , Kyle Moffett , info@crossmeta.com Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:59586 "EHLO palinux.hppa") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030231AbWADOpl (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:45:41 -0500 To: Jamie Lokier Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060104141607.GA12824@mail.shareable.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:16:07PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > That sentence is not clear to me. Are you're saying that it was > possible to download the object code without source code, or that > _only_ the object code was available? Why don't you go and look instead of quibbling in the abstract? The binary is *currently* available, and no source code is. > No. They must provide the 'written offer' to the person downloading > the binary, if they did not make available source code to that person. Why are you bothering to nitpick Harald? Do you not realise he understands the GPL better than you do, having agreed over 30 settlements against people violating it? He's even got courts to grant injunctions! > And, again, I'm not a lawyer. FSF legals will presumably have a more > authoritative answer. Yes. You're not a lawyer. Stop wasting everybody's time by trying to interpret a legal document.