Re: [ANNOUNCE] block device interfaces changes

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

In message <85c8no$pov$[e-mail]>, "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" 
write
s:
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| [e-mail] (Richard B. Johnson) writes:
| >No. According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement
| >that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a
| >"current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it.
| 
| My reading of GPL is, that it requires you to ship the source to the
| binaries that you ship. If you ship a RH 2.1 based system with 1.2.13
| kernel with tons of custom patches, it requires you to ship the source
| to this. Not the source to RH6.1 featuring 2.3.39pre1.
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IIRC, you don't have to ship it; you only need to make the source to *what 
you ship* (that part is correct) available for free upon request.  Shipping 
it with the product is probably the easiest way to do this; putting it on an 
FTP site with a pointer to it in the docs would also be sufficient, as long 
as nobody gets the idea that they can remove it to save space later because 
it's obsolete.

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