Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] GPL Issues surrounding Mepis and the can of worms he opened.

[Sriram D. <sri...@gm...>]

My Take on this?
  we wont be in violation of GPL as long as we provide a means to the buyer
to acquire the source to those components of VL which are GPL.
We go one step ahead an provide the source to our tools like VASM also.  So
i dont see any reason to worry.
>From our end all we need to do to be safe is declare that we will try and
provide a way for those who purchase our distro, a way to get the souorce of
any GPL'd software that they bought through us.

Thrid Party programs do not affect this situation. Acrobat is not GPL'd so
we can distribute it as long as Adobe is happy with that situation.
similarly Nvidia.

Tigger, dont despair or get overly concerned.  You personally can never get
into any trouble because you develop something.  It is the distributor who
is in the line of fire.  ofcourse you could be pedantic and say that you
"distributed" it to us, but we did not buy it from you and wont sue you. [
we == other devs ].  You are a great developer.  Dont let stuff like this
get in the way.

So in conclusion, This does not affect the development effort. We can
continue to progress with VL6 Base.  If htere are any issues with GPL, most
can be resolved with very little effort.  And even those cropup only on the
distribution side of things.

cheers
ram




On 6/29/06, hanumizzle <han...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On 6/29/06, Tony Brijeski <tb...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > How does everyone feel about this?
> >
> > The effort I'm working on will put us in GPL compliance moving forward
> as
> > far as the normal stuff goes.
> >
> > What about the issue behind acrobat, nvidia and ati drivers, mplayer,
> etc?
>
> Aren't these non-GPL issues?
>
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