From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:27:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:27:10 -0400 Received: from firewall.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.9]:24047 "EHLO ocs4.ocs-net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:27:01 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: Russell King cc: "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 11:05:07 +0100." <20010607110507.A1765@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 01:27:39 +1000 Message-ID: <3397.991927659@ocs4.ocs-net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 11:05:07 +0100, Russell King wrote: >Umm, any commercial company can come along and re-implement any part of >the Linux kernel, produce a distribution or supply kernel binary images >as long as they make available the source code to the people they >supply the kernel binary to, and no more. GNU General Public License Version 2, June 1991. Section 3(b) says "any third party", not just customers. Nothing in the GPL restricts the source being supplied to "the people they supply the kernel binary to, and no more". Even if a company refused to supply their source changes to anybody except a customer (which would violate the GPL anyway), section 2(b) explictly allows those customers to give the source to anybody. Attempts to restrict distribution will void your rights under the GPL, see section 4.