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, 24 Oct 2002 03:02:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 03:02:36 -0400 Received: from dhcp101-dsl-usw4.w-link.net ([208.161.125.101]:54501 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 03:02:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3DB79C79.9050200@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:08:41 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gilad Ben-Yossef CC: jw schultz , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: over&out (Re: feature request - why not make netif_rx() a pointer?) References: <20021023003959.GA23155@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <004c01c27a99$927b8a30$800a140a@SLNW2K> <3DB6AC40.20007@nortelnetworks.com> <008b01c27ab0$760be900$800a140a@SLNW2K> <20021023225916.GA6395@pegasys.ws> <1035440743.9164.24.camel@gby.benyossef.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > IANAL but AFAIK the GPL V2 requires you to either distribute the > source/patch together with the binary or include a *written* obligation > valid for three years to supply the sources to any thrid party. > > So, for example, if you disribute the binary on a CD, or some embedded > device, sticking the patch somewhere on your web site with an obscure > link pointing to them is technicaly a violation of the GPL. You could hide the source in the documentation, no one ever reads that ;) Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear