From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: linux-os@analogic.com
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL violation by CorAccess?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:59:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42656319.6090703@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504191516080.18402@chaos.analogic.com>
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> Violation? They proudly reply in their article in
> http://www.linuxdevices.com
> that they use Linux, that they embedded a version
> of Red Hat, etc.
>
> It's likely that they didn't modify anything in the kernel and
> just used some stripped-down C-libraries to make everything fit.
Right. They're distributing products licensed under the GPL, so
sections 3-a and 3-b of the GPL apply.
Thus they can either a) accompany it with the source code, or b)
accompany it with a written offer to give any third party a copy of the
source code.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-19 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-19 17:57 GPL violation by CorAccess? Karel Kulhavy
2005-04-19 18:25 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-04-19 18:32 ` Charles Cazabon
2005-04-19 18:59 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-19 19:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-19 19:59 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-04-19 21:44 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-19 23:37 ` Chris Friesen
2005-04-20 0:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-20 7:30 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-04-20 12:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-20 12:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-20 13:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-04-20 13:36 ` Michael Poole
2005-04-20 13:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-20 17:18 ` Pavel Machek
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