On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 05:10 +0530, A. Mani wrote: >> See http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/ >> >> It is a GPL violation. > > it is not
The main argument would be "The GPL says quite plainly: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. Whether combining lots of patches into one large patch constitutes a change in "form" would be an argument for the lawyers if this ever goes to court, which I very much doubt. In my opinion, however, the case is pretty clear -- you simply do not modify that large a patch file. Therefore it's not a "preferred form". Therefore Red Hat is, ideally if not materially, in breach of the GPL." Further there are more conditions on the distribution of patches, that is definitely imposing additional restrictions. This comment says it better http://lwn.net/Articles/430889/ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
