Re: Ethical question..

2006-12-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ira Abramov wrote: This is not exactly a GPL violation, I'm not sure you are right about this. Here's my take on things. The kernel is GPL, which means that all derived work of it needs to be GPL too, or it is infringing on the kernel's copyright. There are three approaches to understanding

Re: Ethical question..

2006-12-01 Thread Meir Michanie
How does checkpoint qualify in this matter. They sale the splat that is redhat linux. Did anyone requested or got their sources for the splat CD? Shachar Shemesh wrote: Ira Abramov wrote: This is not exactly a GPL violation, I'm not sure you are right about this. Here's my take on things.

Re: Ethical question..

2006-12-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Meir Michanie wrote: How does checkpoint qualify in this matter. this matter relates to binary kernel modules. As far as I know, it's just another binary kernel module. I am not aware that they are using any GPL only exports (though I really don't know). They sale the splat that is redhat

smoke testing of the Linux kernel

2006-12-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
Can someone point me to some web pages that will explain how smoke and regression testing of the Linux kernel is handled? Is there an aggregator of the smoke test results one could see? I looked at http://www.osdl.org/ but could not locate this information. I looked at

Kernal panic after Ubuntu upgrade

2006-12-01 Thread Gabor Szabo
After an Ubuntu upgrade I get Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) So what now ? Gabor = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body,