From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Mansfield Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:16:20 -0700 Message-ID: <43AC5B14.2090509@mac.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ben Slusky , "Robert W. Fuller" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML Kernel , Kyle Moffett , Steven Rostedt Return-path: 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 To: Bryan Henderson In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org >>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