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[ILUG] Extracting Kernel Config Info

[ILUG] Extracting Kernel Config Info

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Wed Jan 23 01:06:59 GMT 2002


"Kenn Humborg" said:

> Surely a kernel compiled with a certain .config is a derived
> work of the GPL-ed kernel.  And the .config should be considered
> a "source" file.  Therefore smoothwall are obliged to provide
> you with their .config.  So it must be there...

The Smoothwall guys sound like the biggest bunch of arseholes -- even
though legally they should, they have such a wierd attitude problem, by
all accounts, that they won't.

IPCop's a proper-GPL fork of Smoothwall: I reckon that's worth a go.
I wouldn't touch Smoothwall with a ten-foot pole...

--j.




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