LWN.net Logo

451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Posted Feb 27, 2009 20:13 UTC (Fri) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486)
Parent article: 451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

How is "the Linux kernel as implemented by TomTom" different from "the Linux kernel"? It is GPL, and if TomTom did some modifications, that would have to be made public. I can't imagine MS as defender of the GPL ;-)
I haven't seen pigs flying past my window recently.


(Log in to post comments)

451 Group: Microsoft suing TomTom, not Linux, not open source

Posted Mar 2, 2009 16:21 UTC (Mon) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]

> How is "the Linux kernel as implemented by TomTom" different from "the Linux kernel"? It is GPL, and if TomTom did some modifications, that would have to be made public.

They would, and, sure enough, are available at http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl#kernel.

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds