Re: [kbuild-devel] Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 1 is available.
Christoph Hellwig (hch@ns.caldera.de)
Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:54:58 +0200
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:48:22PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > In article <3B712392.A7CFEEC9@math.ethz.ch> you wrote:
> > > BTW we cannot ship the generated file without the source files,
> > > because of GPL.
> >
> > That's wrong.
>
> Why?
>
> (Yes legally is wrong, and we should check case per case, but as far
> as we can do, we should GPL as much code as possible, and we should
> follow where possible the GPL also on non GPL code)
That's blurb. You can just put the GPLed sources for the shipped
stuff somewhere else on kernel.org and you're fine. There is no
fsckin need to have them in the same archive.
Christoph
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