From: Scott Mansfield <thephantom@mac.com>
To: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>,
"Robert W. Fuller" <garbageout@sbcglobal.net>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:16:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43AC5B14.2090509@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF3669F3D1.1A1E92D6-ON882570E0.006B0B6E-882570E0.006B8697@us.ibm.com>
>>Developer replies that the source code will be provided
>>only to paying customers:
>
>
> Not really. Developer does make the bizarre statement that "paid
> customers" are entitled to source code, but doesn't say nobody else is.
> And Developer says at the same time he will make source code available to
> the person who requested it. The problem is that he doesn't actually do
> it, and is never heard from again.
Call me crazy but if one requests a copy of the source only to never
hear from the developer, is that not a direct violation of the GPL? To
me this sounds like the developer is walking a pretty fine line.
Cheers,
Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-23 20:16 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 [this message]
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
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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