I haven't read the whitepaper, but the overview (link below) indicates
that the author feels that companies using software which violates the
GPL, may also be violating Sarbanes-Oxley as well. He specifically
mentions the habit that vendors have of binary only Kernel loadable
modules (think 3590
On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:53 AM, McKown, John wrote:
I haven't read the whitepaper, but the overview (link below) indicates
that the author feels that companies using software which violates the
GPL, may also be violating Sarbanes-Oxley as well. He specifically
mentions the habit that vendors have
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:25:21AM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote:
I haven't read the whitepaper, but the overview (link below) indicates
that the author feels that companies using software which violates the
GPL, may also be violating Sarbanes-Oxley as well. He specifically
mentions the habit
On Jan 19, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Jay Maynard wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 10:25:21AM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote:
I haven't read the whitepaper, but the overview (link below)
indicates
that the author feels that companies using software which
violates the
GPL, may also be violating
As has been pointed out on Groklaw, the report's title is incorrect.
These issues do not affect Linux _users_, only Linux _distributors_, or
companies embedding Linux in devices (who are in fact distributors).
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On Jan 19, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
wrote:
As has been pointed out on Groklaw, the report's title is incorrect.
These issues do not affect Linux _users_, only Linux
_distributors_, or
companies embedding Linux in devices (who are in fact distributors).
It's
On Thursday, 01/19/2006 at 09:53 CST, McKown, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't read the whitepaper, but the overview (link below) indicates
that the author feels that companies using software which violates the
GPL, may also be violating Sarbanes-Oxley as well. He specifically
mentions
On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 10:30 -0600, Jay Maynard wrote:
I do not agree at all that LKMs almost certainly violate the GPL,
considering that Linus has said they do not.
Linus is only one copyright holder and he's hardly said they do not
just that they maybe don't in some cases. Its an area of law
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:56:52PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 10:30 -0600, Jay Maynard wrote:
I do not agree at all that LKMs almost certainly violate the GPL,
considering that Linus has said they do not.
Linus is only one copyright holder and he's hardly said they do not
This guy (and his writings and his company) came up on an internal
mailing list a while back, with people complaining about how he was
bashing the GPL, etc. My reply then, and now, was that when you take
into account his audience (companies that want to use an embedded OS in
an appliance, and who
On Jan 19, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Post, Mark K wrote:
This guy (and his writings and his company) came up on an internal
mailing list a while back, with people complaining about how he was
bashing the GPL, etc. My reply then, and now, was that when you take
into account his audience (companies that
Not at all. Re-read it. He particularly talks about people creating
appliances and shipping them, and what they need to do to be compliant
with the GPL, or how to avoid it by using BSD.
Mark Post
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Adam
On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 14:20 -0500, Post, Mark K wrote:
he's absolutely right. The BSD style licenses are much more business
friendly than the GPL.
Dangerous assumption. BSD licenses can be a lot less business friendly
especially the older one.
I worked for a certain networking appliance
Alan,
It's not an assumption, and you cut out my qualifying statements. It
absolutely does depend on your goals. For companies that want to embed
an OS and not disclose their own source code (for whatever reason), the
GPL is absolutely out of the question.
I'm not saying that there is anything
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