From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 17 01:33:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA12769 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 01:33:08 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA12763 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 01:33:06 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25019; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 10:33:01 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA01990; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 10:33:00 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA09069; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 10:31:26 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506170831.KAA09069@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: GPL code in freebsd? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 10:31:25 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506170757.AAA06597@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 17, 95 00:57:04 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 493 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > You had better go read the GPL a few more times. If you link GPL code > with non GPL code and distribute that, the whole needs to be under > the GPL weither you send source code or not. Ok, my fault. I've read it again, and yes, we should never provide binary versions of the kernel linked against the GPL'd code. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)