It's not so simple [LWN.net]

It's not so simple

Posted Mar 2, 2011 16:46 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: It's not so simple by ESRI
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

I think there are more important battles to fight than to take RH to task.

Maybe so, but we have a company that has traditionally grokked Free Software violating the GPL, in my opinion. That's very serious.

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It's not so simple

Posted Mar 3, 2011 7:19 UTC (Thu) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link] (1 responses)

Only serious in your opinion, you then have to ask the question whether a) your opinion matters at all, b) RH lawyers opinion matters more.

It's not so simple

Posted Mar 3, 2011 12:04 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

It's not just my opinion. And if Red Hat is bringing in lawyers against those who would use its patches, then it has withdrawn itself from the community of collaborative developers and should be shunned.

(For the record, I don't believe Red Hat has done that or will do it. I think it's using FUD rather than actual threats to prevent people from distributing its patches.)