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Appliance kernel source?

Posted Oct 21, 2009 15:11 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: GPL doesn't require, but maintenance kills you by dwheeler
Parent article: KS2009: How Google uses Linux

If you buy a Google Search Appliance, you should be able to request a copy of the source code to any GPL software on it. (Could be that they're maintaining a whole extra kernel for the GSA, though.)

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Posted Oct 21, 2009 18:17 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

By their reports, you wouldn't _want_ to see the code.

Appliance kernel source?

Posted Oct 27, 2009 9:13 UTC (Tue) by dsommers (subscriber, #55274) [Link]

That's exactly why I would insist on seeing the code ;-)

Appliance kernel source?

Posted Oct 30, 2009 22:25 UTC (Fri) by cdibona (subscriber, #13739) [Link]

You guys are killing me, we've had this up The GSA Mirror for years and years. Enjoy!

Chris DiBona