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From: Andy Walker <squawker@start.no>
To: <cate@dplanet.ch>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 1 is   available.
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:00:05 +0200test	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <997272005.3b7129c5f1b9a@epost.start.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108081139.f78BdTH11980@ns.caldera.de> <3B712706.A7D566F1@math.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <3B712706.A7D566F1@math.ethz.ch>

Quoting Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@math.ethz.ch>:

> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > In article <3B712392.A7CFEEC9@math.ethz.ch> you
> wrote:
> > > BTW we cannot ship the generated file without
> the source files,
> > > because of GPL.
> >
> > That's wrong.
> 
> Why?
> 
> (Yes legally is wrong, and we should check case per
> case, but as far
> as we can do, we should GPL as much code as
> possible, and we should
> follow where possible the GPL also on non GPL code)
> 
> 	giacomo
> 

Because GPL only requires you to make sources available
on request. You don't *have* to always include source in
your package.

Enough already. GPL debate verboten!!!

Cheers,

-Andy

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-08 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-08  6:58 Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 1 is available Keith Owens
2001-08-08  7:38 ` john slee
2001-08-08 11:07   ` Keith Owens
2001-08-08 11:33 ` [kbuild-devel] " Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-08-08 11:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-08 11:48     ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-08-08 11:54       ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-08 12:06         ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2001-08-08 12:00       ` Andy Walker [this message]
2001-08-08 11:50   ` Keith Owens
2001-08-08 11:56     ` Alan Cox

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