On Saturday 04 June 2005 23:22, Peter wrote:
> Would you mind my hearing this from Linus ? Because he knows about these
> embedded systems, and endorses them as far as I know.
You keep mixing aggregation and doing derived work. For people who'd rather
read what he says and not what you *claim* that he says: Look no further
than your kernel source tree in the Documentation/COPYING.modules file.
A copy for kernel source challenged:
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/COPYING.modules
> And the author of...
Looks more and more like a hearsay to me...
> You are allowed to charge money for it....
Sure, as long as you *FOLLOW THE LICENSE* which is the whole point
we discuss -- it appears ECI did not follow it!
> This is ridiculous. What do you expect them to do, email you a cdrom ?
On the first page of the user manual I currently read it says (in Hebrew):
2004 (c) all rights reserved to ECI Telecom Ltd.
All rights....
Can you imagine now what is expected of them? They should respect
other people copyrights just as they respect their own.
> What do you mean what has this got to do with the ECI router ?!! Where
> do you think I got the information about Monta Vista on that box ?!! I
> ssh'd into it and typed cat /proc/version !!!
My mother does not know how to ssh and the only thing she knows about
a cat is to feed them. Still the company is *required* by the GPL to
notify her about the rights she get with GPL'ed source.
> You have no idea what you are talking about, you are interpreting things
> in ways that defy objective reality, and I think that threads like this
> can cause people who later find them in the archives to draw wrong
> conclusions as to the suitability of Linux for embedded appliances.
Do you try to suggest that people should forgo law violations just becasue
these companies do us the great "favour" to use our beloved OS?
> PS: One more thread like this and I will unsubscribe again, as I did
> years ago.
Your subscription, your call. Just to make things clear, I'm not
flaming you personally (don't even know you) -- just try to correct
the factual errors that other people may read.
Cheers,
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