On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Peter wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Shaul Karl wrote:
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 11:10:49AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
It's sort of funny in a way that it runs Linux - think for example how
many Israeli high ranking Microsoft execs connect to the internet using
this Bezeq provided Linux box and don't even realise it... :-)
I'm not sure about the funny part. Here is why: are we entitled to
have the source code? Do we have it?
If it is an unmodified GPL version of well-known code like the kernel and
busybox then there is no need to provide the source since the binaries are
'stock'. You can d/l the source elsewhere.
It is best that you read the GPL, before you give opinions about it. The
license says nothing about "well-known code". If you commercially
distribute a binary created from a GPL source to someone, you must
either include a copy of the source (3a) or a written offer to provide
the source (3b).
If they use proprietary programs then they are proprietary and that's that,
and it's legal, and they do not need to publish any source.
Only if the whole package is "mere aggregation" of the GPL and non-GPL
parts. It is quite clear that a kernel module is a derived work of the
kernel, and that the "module exception" from Linus does not cover
modules that are distributed together with the kernel bianry they are
supposed to run with.
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