21 Oct
2011
21 Oct
'11
5:37 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Gary Greene ggreene@minervanetworks.com wrote:
I've never quite understood how anything containing any GPL-covered code could have any redistribution/use restrictions added.
Trust me ... the Linux Foundation thinks it is OK, so we are SOL.
I'd rather get the opinion of the FSF (those whom wrote the license) instead of LF, as they don't matter as much, really.
You'd need a copyright owner to initiate legal action. And the FSF generally is more concerned about source availability although binaries are clearly derived from source and covered by the same copyright, and I can't see any exception at least in GPLv2 about being able to put additional redistribution/use restrictions on covered binaries.
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Les Mikesell
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