And even if it was GPL licensed 1) They aren't distributing their version of memcached, so there is no requirement for them to be sharing anything
2) And, even if they were distributing their work, they aren't required to merge their patches anywhere, just publish them. Go look at sony's website, you will find all sorts of interesting patches to the kernel to make it work properly on their TVs and things like that (http://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/), which is less than facebook just did. --Todd On Dec 12, 4:27 pm, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Dustin <[email protected]> wrote: > > If anyone at facebook is listening, is it possible at all to add > > this work onto the codebase where everyone else has been working? > > +1 > > not to mention couldn't that technically be required in the > GPL/whatever license memcached is under?
