Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 25, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Thanks for the answers to both of you. Szivesen We just modify the packaging of the file: gzipped tarball instead of floppy images, so it will be fine to redistribute them with the pointer to the sources then. Yes. As a shameless plug,

Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-25 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
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Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
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Re: Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[freebsd-emulation cut from cc] On Feb 23, 2007, at 5:53 AM, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: The question is that can we extract and provide these binaries in a simple tar.gz file or is that considered a GPL/LGPL violation? The sources are freely available on slackware.com, but we are not sure doin

Licensing question about GPL/LGPL binaries

2007-02-23 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hi Folks, we have a shiny new linux_base based on the Slackware distribution in ports/104680. The only problem is with this, that Slackware people distribute some binaries in ext2fs floppy images. We would like to avoid using such, because that would need some kernel module trick in the port