On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:03, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> On Thursday 30 May 2002 23:44, Ciaran Mac Lochlainn wrote:
> > Only in that they'll be releasing alpha and beta versions without source.
> > This may be irrelevant, irritating or toxic, depending on your personal
> > allergies.
>> Ah ok, I didn't pick that up at all. If they distribute packages without
> making the source available that's definitely a violation of the GPL.
> I don't think the companies involved here are that stupid though.
Lindows did that and were politely warned that it was illegal, so I
doubt it what will probably be the largest Linux movement we've ever
seen would be that stupid.
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