From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750743AbWDSI4g (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:56:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750756AbWDSI4g (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:56:36 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:5324 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750743AbWDSI4g (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 04:56:36 -0400 Subject: Re: is this GPL v2 violation - konica-minolta or EFI ? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Jon Masters Cc: art@usfltd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <35fb2e590604190152t2c24b28flf049cbd1ebd8ed9b@mail.gmail.com> References: <200604181824.AA3736200@usfltd.com> <35fb2e590604190152t2c24b28flf049cbd1ebd8ed9b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:56:30 +0200 Message-Id: <1145436990.3085.15.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 09:52 +0100, Jon Masters wrote: > On 4/19/06, art wrote: > > > is this GPL v2 violation - konica-minolta or EFI ? > > > << NO SOURCE CODE FOR LINUX >> on media/web > > Did you: > > a). Buy the product. > b). Ask them for the source? it's not quite as simple. You can't know if it's a gpl violation, because they could have shipped the source to the people who bought it. (for embedded stuff with a disk on it, like most printer controllers, it's easy to just put the source on that disk with the binary and satisfy the gpl) If they did not ship the source they need to ship a written offer that is valid for *everyone* not just the people they gave the binary to.