Message-ID: <4654727B.8070506@DONOTSPAMMEcjsoftuk.dyndns.org> Disposition-Notification-To: Chris Malton Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:57:31 +0100 From: Chris Malton User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matti Aarnio Subject: Re: Google are using linux kernel - what do you know about the source? References: <20070523162344.e8847387.bastyaelvtars@gmail.com> <20070523165035.8e3db756.diegocg@gmail.com> <20070523165220.GA20047@mea-ext.zmailer.org> In-Reply-To: <20070523165220.GA20047@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit And where, may I ask, does one find the source of Google's modified kernel? (At least, the unmodified bits!) Chris Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:50:35PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > >> El Wed, 23 May 2007 16:23:44 +0200, Gergo Szakal escribió: >> >> >>> Greetings to all list-members! >>> >>> Recently I have read that Google are selling enterprise hardware that >>> is running a modified version of the Linuk kernel [1]. I decided to ask >>> them whether the source is available. I did this via the question form >>> they offered. >>> >> http://code.google.com/mirror/gsa.html >> > > Gerco, > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > There you will notice that use of Linux KERNEL does not mean that > your must publish sources for your proprietary application, or to > make it easy for somebody to make a distribution competeting with > yours. People like Oracle have realized this a long ago, and are > selling their commercial products also for Linux platform. > > Google has made available all parts of the system that they are > obliged under GPL to make available. > > Perhaps person supplying the reply from Google didn't quite understand > what the product is, and that it has lots of components where you > can get sources for, although nothing exiting and special happens > in them. A better reply from Google would have been: > > "The GSA is made of a branded PC hardware, Linux operating > system (sources of components available) plus proprietary > Google search engine suite." > > /Matti Aarnio > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >