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Wow. Talk about fogetting history.

Wow. Talk about fogetting history.

Posted Mar 2, 2011 15:17 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: It's not so simple by maks
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

The point beeing that linus doesn't really hide his git tree on kernel.org, whereas RH does.

Well, Linus did that for a few years. It was not possible to get meta-information from bikeeper.com without agreeing to pretty onerous terms. Note that some developers refused to accept such terms - but none tried to imply that what Linus and other were doing is breach of the GPL!

Sorry, but this ship sailed long ago.


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Wow. Talk about fogetting history.

Posted Mar 2, 2011 16:59 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

There may well be a difference between making available what you can versus, versus deliberately withholding things you have easily to hand (or not). The judicial system certainly can take intent into consideration, and does so as a matter of course.

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