Re: UnitedLinux violating GPL?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 9 Jan 2003 21:47:10 -0500


On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:40:50PM -0500, John Jasen wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Philip Dodd wrote:
>
> > Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Anybody know where the source rpm for UnitedLinux kernel is?
> > > [to be distinguished from kernel-source rpm]
>
> if they supply the kernel source rpm, how are they in violation? Since you
> can compile a kernel from the source rpm.

Read the GPL :) The source code "preferred form" is clearly not an
on-disk kernel tree with no information about the changes [patches]
that were processed in a specific sequence, to produce that end result.

Anyway, I would rather the thread die, since it is clear that they are
_not_ in violation of the GPL, and the source code is available. :)

Jeff

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