From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261591AbVGZD2I (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:28:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261595AbVGZD2I (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:28:08 -0400 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:40635 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261591AbVGZD2G (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:28:06 -0400 Subject: Re: ZyXEL Kernel /BusyBox GPL violation? From: Lee Revell To: mmoneta@optonline.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andersen@codepoet.org In-Reply-To: <1122348062.26341.50.camel@mmouse.moneta.optonline.net> References: <1122348062.26341.50.camel@mmouse.moneta.optonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 23:28:03 -0400 Message-Id: <1122348483.1472.90.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:21 -0400, Mace Moneta wrote: > The response seems meaningless; does this constitute a violation of > GPL? > If so what, if any, action needs to be taken? It sounds like they think you are asking for their userspace source code, or that support rep does not know the difference. Also if they didn't modify the kernel, they don't have to give you source, they can just refer you to kernel.org. Lee