Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:45:40AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:16:07PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > That sentence is not clear to me.  Are you're saying that it was
> > possible to download the object code without source code, or that
> > _only_ the object code was available? 
> 
> Why don't you go and look instead of quibbling in the abstract?
> The binary is *currently* available, and no source code is.

Ok, the binary is still available, which was new to me.  I was unable to
find it on their homepage.

> > And, again, I'm not a lawyer.  FSF legals will presumably have a more
> > authoritative answer.
> 
> Yes.  You're not a lawyer.  Stop wasting everybody's time by trying to
> interpret a legal document.

Mathew, Jamie, guys: Please calm down.  No reason to get down to that
level.

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