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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:43:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>
To:        "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908142142210.56229-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908141618180.59155-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Leif Neland wrote:
> 
> > [Regarding GPL]
> > If a company sell or lease us a mailserver based on Linux, where we only
> > have smtp and pop3-access to, can we say "Hey, this is GPL'ed, give us the
> > source"?
> 
> Yes, you can do that; it's required for source to be "easily available"
> in the GPL.

Well, he can ask for source to Linux, but if they have proprietary code
on there, they don't need to provide it, if the code is separate from
the OS.

--
 Ben

UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
StarMedia Network, Inc.



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