On 29/04/2017 15:11, Alex Efros wrote:
> Sure, they can sell their patch to Linux kernel without opensourcing that
> patch. But at soon as their customers (say, some government org or large
> company) will APPLY that patch to Linux kernel and try to DISTRIBUTE that
> kernel on their computers - they will have to distribute patched source
> too (so it'll became available to users of these computers), and that
> patched source will have GPL2 license… so any of these users/employees may
> publish these sources, and org/company can't prohibit this without
> violating GPL2… correct?

See the discussion on https://lwn.net/Articles/720983/ .

Paweł

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