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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marc Fleischmann <mwf@risingtidesystems.com>,
	Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
Subject: Re: scsi target, likely GPL violation
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:57:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509B117A.6070708@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPoiz9wzx_NmuA1ty-U28MGiYr7XKCbDn_e0ZLmz=pNDCqwqFw@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/07/2012 07:02 PM, Jon Mason wrote:
> I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, but if
> I understand the GPL correctly, RTS only needs to provide the relevant
> source to their customers upon request.

Not quite.

Assuming the GPL applies, and that they have modified the code, then 
they must either:

1) include the source with the distributed binary

or

2) include with the binary an offer to provide the source to *any* third 
party

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-08  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-07 16:50 scsi target, likely GPL violation Andy Grover
2012-11-08  1:02 ` Jon Mason
2012-11-08  1:57   ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2012-11-08 16:57     ` Andy Grover
2012-11-08 20:05       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-08 20:22         ` Dave Airlie
2012-11-08 21:22         ` Andy Grover
2012-11-09  2:08           ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2012-11-09 11:03             ` Alan Cox
2012-11-09 19:52               ` Andy Grover
2012-11-09 20:26                 ` Alan Cox
2012-11-11 22:13               ` Lawrence Rosen
2012-11-11 22:41                 ` Julian Calaby
2012-11-11 23:03                   ` Dave Airlie
2012-11-12 14:21                 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2012-11-15 18:21                 ` Andy Grover
2012-11-09 23:16             ` Andy Grover
2012-11-10 23:32             ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2012-11-08 16:57   ` Andy Grover
2012-11-11  9:34 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-11 13:05   ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-11 15:15     ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2012-11-11 18:22       ` James Bottomley
2012-11-11 18:32         ` Alan Cox
2012-11-14  2:32           ` James Bottomley
2012-11-12 14:08       ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-12 14:15         ` Alan Cox
2012-11-12  0:39   ` Douglas Gilbert

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