On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Felipe Contreras
>> thats very interesting... so i can use linux in my product and not
>> tell anyone about it?
>
> Huh? It doesn't matter if people know that you are using Linux or not.
> In order for a lawsuit to get started, I'd assume it has to be started
> or blessed by the damaged parties; the copyright owners. Since the
> copyright owners, Linux developers, have no interest in any of this,
> you can't sue a company for not distributing Linux's sources, unless

wait, WHAT! thats so troublesome for me in so many ways...

> you do it by proxy through some other component that is GPL, and that
> the copyright owners explicitly blessed this legal proceeding; busybox
> developers.
>
> Just tell your ex-boss not to use busybox.
>

its against my interest to tell them. they went for a very expensive
proprietary os and i stuck with linux and busybox but i digress.

> --
> Felipe Contreras

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