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Re: legality infoblox appliance: msg#00022

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Subject: Re: legality infoblox appliance

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:10:40AM +0100, Sebastian S wrote:
> I recently followed a small talk about the appliance Infoblox
> (a dhcp/dns/etc appliance) and talked to one of their technical people
> since this product was running linux and I was wondering about the
> source code...
> now he claimed that since they didn't -add- anything to the kernel
> source, but only removed code from it, they didn't have to provide any
> source code for this. But as far as I know it's about changes to the
> code, not additions.
> Could anyone tell me which of this would be true ?

You're both wrong ;)

The GPL doesn't even say anything about changes. They just have to provide
the source.

armijn

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