Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone

Kyle Moffett
2004-10-08T01:31:36Z

On Oct 07, 2004, at 17:17, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Then their code could be removed from the snapshot, and the folks who
> were more
> interested in being smart rather than being right would get the $$$.
> That's easy.

Are you sure you can find and pay sufficient money to the thousands
upon thousands
of people who contributed code to the linux kernel? In some cases you
may not be
able to contact copyright owners of critical code, in which case you
can't distribute
those pieces at all. The whole point of "Open-Source" is that the
users are free to fix
the bug in the program you sent them, and that they're free to change
it however they
want.

In any case, Alan Cox's "offer" was for $100,000 per copy, not $50,000
for an eternal
license. :-D

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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