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From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, videolan@videolan.org
Subject: Re: possible GPL violation by Free
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:48:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e59041009114870056d7b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410091958.25251.okuji@gnu.org>

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:58:25 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@gnu.org> wrote:

> The company Free reasons that they don't need to make the source code
> available, because they don't sell Freebox but merely _rents_ Freebox
> to customers. So the company thinks that customers do not own Freebox
> legally, and so they have no right to claim that they can ask the
> source code.

Hi there,

Someone should then perhaps call them and find out whether it's
possible to purchase one of these boxes - thereby trapping them in to
not having this argument.

Je le ferais, mais mon francais n'est pas tres bon, et je n'habite pas
en France.

Jon.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-09 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-09 17:58 possible GPL violation by Free Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-09 18:48 ` Jon Masters [this message]
2004-10-10  9:12 ` Sam Hocevar
2004-10-10 15:34   ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-10 16:23     ` Sam Hocevar
2004-10-10 16:46       ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-10 21:55         ` David Schwartz
2004-10-10 10:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-10-11  0:59   ` Eric Rannaud
2004-10-11  2:06     ` David Schwartz
2004-10-11  2:24       ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-11  7:14     ` Colin Leroy
2004-10-11 13:45       ` Eric Rannaud
2004-10-10 19:40 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-11  0:06 ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-11  7:12 Matthieu Castet
2004-10-11 19:39 Glennie Vignarajah
2004-10-11 20:05 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-01 21:33 Pierre

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