----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> No. According to our Legal Department, to satisfy the GPL requirement
> that we provide source to the end-user, they required that we supply a
> "current" distribution of Linux if the end-user requests it.
Your legal people are idiots...You must make available the source
of what you ship.
> This seemed, by them, to be an easy solution to possible problems.
Ah the crux of the problem...legal people invent problems for a living.
What could they possibly have been thinking?
> Unfortunately, for Engineering, this means that we have to keep everything
> "current" during development so that, by the time equipment is shipped, it
> will run with the "current" distribution (whatever this is).
Too bad you rolled over on this. Would have been better to duke it out
with legal right up front.
On a constructive note...maybe you could try telling legal that it's risky
and irresponsible to to ship developmental kernel code with little testing
and you should stick to stable production sources. "Current" doesn't mean
pre-production.
good luck,
jeff
