From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264726AbUJARX7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:23:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265161AbUJARX7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:23:59 -0400 Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.9]:39914 "EHLO shockwave.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264726AbUJARX5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2004 13:23:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:24:53 +0100 (BST) From: Tigran Aivazian X-X-Sender: tigran@einstein.homenet To: Ralph Corderoy Cc: Alan Cox , Denis Vlasenko , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone. In-Reply-To: <200410011559.i91FxfH13266@blake.inputplus.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > *After that* you get a `welcome email' containing the written offer. > Sorry, but I have the binaries once I walk out the shop. Where's my > written offer? What do I do if I bought one and got it shipped to > France and so it won't `phone home'? Greetings Ralph, I think that the "research" you have been doing was a clear waste of time of people at Amstrad who were, as it turns out, not even breaking any laws. Alan Cox has cleared up everything, and so your best option, I think, is to kindly apologize to Amstrad for wasting their time and not continue with your irritating "what if this" and "what if that"s, unless you are a lawyer and therefore delight in the waste of time of this sort (or even paid to do that). Having said that, I also saved your first email in the "useful" folder --- as a classical example of what to expect from someone with little clue but much "zeal" for the enforcement of GPL putting his nose in every hole he can find :) Kind regards Tigran