Re: Monta Vista software license terms

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:56:28 +0000


On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:54:36PM -0500, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 13:15, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > Blah. Why can't mvista put up the source to their products on some ftp
> > server like suse/redhat/caldera/mandrake/etc?? That's the whole point of
> > this discussion. mvista doesn't do anything illegal, but they certainly
> > don't play nice.
>
> The source code is available to those with the binaries,
> just as the GPL requires. AFAIK everyone's said so far
> that they not only meet the GPL requirements they feed
> the changes they do make back to the community as well
> as to their customers.

everyone including me, right. I can't force them, but I can be pissed
if they don't play nice. And I am.

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