Re: Linux GPL violations.

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 05:23:51 EST


Hi!

> > > I've read through months of archives, trying to find a
> > > good place to report this, but have not been able to
> > > find anything.
> > >
> > > Where is a good place to report GPL violations
> > > concerning the Linux Kernel?
> >
> > Maybe we should make small portion of kernel copyright FSF, then you
> > could ask rms@gnu.org to defend you.
>
> It would have to be an important and hard to replace segment or they could
> avoid the problem altogeater..

Idea is they are stupid and don't care about GPL. They will not do the
work of removing segment. (But I agree it needs to be core piece, not
driver.)

[They would not avoid problem altogether: there would still be 1000
other people to sue them.]

> Perhaps someone could talk linus into attributing
> linux/arch/i386/mm/init.c to the FSF?

That's i386 specific. init/main.c is better.
                                                                Pavel

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