From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 14 18:41:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D46914EFB; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 18:41:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA56303; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:43:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:43:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Leif Neland , Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > > > [Regarding GPL] > > If a company sell or lease us a mailserver based on Linux, where we only > > have smtp and pop3-access to, can we say "Hey, this is GPL'ed, give us the > > source"? > > Yes, you can do that; it's required for source to be "easily available" > in the GPL. Well, he can ask for source to Linux, but if they have proprietary code on there, they don't need to provide it, if the code is separate from the OS. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message