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Yes, and it's about time

Yes, and it's about time

Posted Dec 19, 2003 1:29 UTC (Fri) by LinuxLobbyist (guest, #6541)
In reply to: Red Hat reports a profit and a purchase (News.com) by zone
Parent article: Red Hat reports a profit and a purchase (News.com)

Sistina's move to change the license of GFS from the GPL to a proprietary one when it was extremely clear that it was useless without the Linux kernel -- and hence, a derived work -- was a violation of the GPL. I believe Alan Cox did contact them about that, telling them the they were voilating his copyrights, but I don't remember hearing about any response from them.

All around good news. Hopefully this GPL violation will now be resolved and considered water under the bridge.


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