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On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 21:54, Mudama, Eric wrote:
> On Monday, May 19, 2003 1:44 PM, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > I think on the one hand the question is also ... how far
> > will a developer of one distro go to help another. I
> > cannot say that I have had much success in the past to
> > get a response from one of the 'big guys' to help me/us
> > (the 'small guys') =3D)
>=20
> AFAIK, it doesn't matter if a distro helps another or not. As per Arjan =
van
> de Ven's comment, I would think any code they release in terms of header
> files based on original GPL source is itself GPL, and therefore
> includable/usable/modifyable/redistributable by any distro.
>=20
> Red Hat (or insert other large distro vendor here) might not want to
> explicitly "help" their little competitors, but they have appeared to sol=
ve
> this problem (according to other posts) and there's no reason you can't b=
ase
> your own work off of that...
>=20
Was actually more referring to accepting patches to fix issues, or even
just replying in general on the patch.
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa
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