From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>,
Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, legal@lists.gnumonks.org,
"Robert W. Fuller" <garbageout@sbcglobal.net>,
LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
info@crossmeta.com
Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:45:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060104144540.GN19769@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060104141607.GA12824@mail.shareable.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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-04 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-22 16:08 blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers Robert W. Fuller
2005-12-22 18:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-22 20:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-22 23:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-23 2:56 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-12-23 3:15 ` Diego Calleja
2005-12-23 3:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-12-23 3:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-23 3:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-23 4:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-12-23 3:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-23 15:35 ` Ben Slusky
2005-12-23 19:34 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-12-23 20:16 ` Scott Mansfield
2005-12-23 22:00 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-12-24 1:48 ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-24 2:41 ` Peter Williams
2005-12-24 3:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 11:09 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 11:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 13:18 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 13:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-04 17:46 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 23:03 ` Gene Heskett
2006-01-04 22:43 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-04 14:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 14:45 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-01-04 15:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 17:42 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-05 17:52 ` Bryan Henderson
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