Re: Dell vs. GPL

Svein Ove Aas (svein.ove@aas.no)
Sat, 28 Jun 2003 17:12:13 +0200


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lørdag 28. juni 2003, 17:05, skrev Doug McNaught:
> AIUI, they need to supply full source, not just a patch against code
> you get from someone else.

Now that's just silly.

The kernel is *how* many megabytes?
And it's very easily available. You may be right, but if you are it's for very
legalistic reasons that don't matter in real life.

Personally I'd rather download a small patch than a multi-megabyte kernel
nearly identical to the one I have in /usr/src.

- - Svein Ove Aas
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