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Cc: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	Charlie Brady <charlieb-linux-mips@e-smith.com>
From: Jim Thompson <jimt@vivato.net>
Subject: Re: Broadcom 4702?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:42:01 -0800
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I have binaries.  I asked.  I was told "no".

On Jan 14, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Mer, 2004-01-14 at 21:05, Jim Thompson wrote:
>> My question is why these patches, which are subject to GPL (it is
>> binutils and gcc, after all), haven't been released.
>
> There is no obligation for anyone to provide the source except to those
> they provide the binaries. They just can't stop those people then
> redistributing it.
>
>