[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

Philip Hands phil at hands.com
Fri Jun 1 19:52:07 BST 2012


Alejandro Mery <amery at geeks.cl> writes:

> On 01/06/12 20:26, Philip Hands wrote:
>> Vladimir Pantelic<vladoman at gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> Philip Hands wrote:
>> ...
>>>> Imposing extra conditions on the distribution of a GPLed work (which I
>>>> think a tweaked Linux kernel is very likely to be) is a violation of the
>>>> terms of the GPL.
>>>
>>> I understood they supply only documentation under NDA, not code,
>>
>> Oh, in that case, forget what I said about GPL violations.
>>
>> Seems like a good idea to avoid all contact with that documentation
>> though.
>
> actually it's the other way around, (incomplete) documention is handed 
> over on a DVD with the devkit and the NDA is for accessing the git 
> servers where the sources live.

and the devkit includes an installed kernel built from those sources
does it?  (or are they supplying it blank?)

Cheers, Phil.
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