ASUS SplashTop and Phoenix Hyperspace infringing kernel copyright and GPL

[Armijn Hemel]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 14:58 +0200, Imre Kaloz wrote:
> >> The license would only allow that in certain circumstances (GPLv2,
> >> section 3c). The GPLv2 license talks about 'complete corresponding
> >> source code', 'source code', etc., but nothing about patches.
> >
> > I do not think it's compliant with GPLv2 to only distribute patches
> > and refer people to the original source. You have to make available
> > source for anything you distribute in binary form.
> 
> 
> Read the GPL. That option is only valid if you are a non-commercial
> project/entity.
> Companies have to provide the full source code.

I think that is exactly what Arnoud said :-)

armijn

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