Re: freebox possible GPL violation

From: Alexandre Oliva
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 12:12:37 EST


On Oct 5, 2005, Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> First, it is very arguable to say that they are "distributing" the
> software as it does not comes with the FreeBox but is automatically
> downloaded at each boot through the DSLAM network (which the user is not
> supposed to know about).

So if I tell you to download a Live CD using say bittorrent and don't
tell you that this Live CD contains Linux the kernel because you're
not supposed to know that, you're not entitled to get the sources?

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Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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