Re: [kbuild-devel] Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 1 is available.

Andy Walker (squawker@start.no)
Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:00:05 +0200test


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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