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LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemLPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystemPosted Sep 19, 2008 15:26 UTC (Fri) by MattPerry (guest, #46341)Parent article: LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem
Greg needs to talk to a lawyer and have them explain the GPL to him. Canonical isn't required to contribute any patches to the kernel. Greg should be thankful for what he gets. As long as Canonical abides by the license then they are fine. If Greg doesn't like that then he's free to use a different license for his code.
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miss the point Posted Sep 19, 2008 16:24 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
No one is saying Canonical *have* to contribute. However as "members" of the "community"* they shouldn't be immune to people questioning their actual record of contributions which is all I think GregKH did.
* intentional quotes, the community is vague amorphous blob of anyone with an opinion of FLOSS and there is no real membership.
LPC: Fitting into the kernel ecosystem Posted Sep 19, 2008 18:17 UTC (Fri) by jikos (subscriber, #43140) [Link]
Greg is not saying that what Ubuntu developers do (or rather do not) is illegal at all.
He just says (as far as my undersntading goes) that they don't contribute to the "ecosystems" as much as would be appropriate with respect to how large userbase they have. Nothing more, nothing less, just a simple feeling/opinion statement.
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