From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750907AbWDSAEI (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:04:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750929AbWDSAEI (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:04:08 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13465 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750907AbWDSAEG (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:04:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:04:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: art cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: is this GPL v2 violation - konica-minolta or EFI ? In-Reply-To: <200604181824.AA3736200@usfltd.com> Message-ID: References: <200604181824.AA3736200@usfltd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, art wrote: > > is this GPL v2 violation - konica-minolta or EFI ? > > http://www.konicaminolta.us > http://www.efi.com/ > > product: option for konica-minolta bizhub c351 > IC-402 Embedded Fiery Print Controller > > product: EFI - Fiery System 6e system 6e X3e CONTROLLER SOLUTIONS > > product: EFI - PrintMe Probably not, but it's hard to tell. When they sell you the system, they have to tell you how to get sources if those things run Linux, but they don't actually have to make the sources available otherwise. (I didn't look the things up, but it's also pretty unlikely that they'd have a custom kernel on them. I don't see why they should - at least the IC-402 thing seems to be basically just an embedded PC. So I suspect they have little incentive to keep anything secret). Linus