From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:24:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:24:45 -0500 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:23564 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:24:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:34:17 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: andrea.glorioso@binary-only.com, lkml Subject: Re: Monta Vista software license terms Message-ID: <20030205183417.A24515@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Nicolas Pitre , andrea.glorioso@binary-only.com, lkml References: <20030205181512.A24002@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from nico@cam.org on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:31:43PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:31:43PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > MontaVista contribute 98% of their modifications to GPL projects back into > their respective public repositories. That's all a hacker like you should > care about. For the rest of the people in the embedded world that don't > want to gather a distribution by themselves tailored to their commercial > product then that work comes with a price. Anyone with a bit technical knowledge wouldn't use the shit provide by mvista anyway. The point is to have the trees for comparism, not for actually using them.