question about RedHat/Fedora and the GPL

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Jun 7 02:15:32 UTC 2005


Once upon a time, condition terminal <conditionterminal at gmail.com> said:
> hardly a realistic arguement. 
> 
> A CPU is not a "file" as per the text of the GPL. 

vmunix (or vmlinux/vmlinuz under Linux) is a file, and it has impact on
the building of binaries, but no reasonable person demands it be
distributed (not even RMS AFAIK).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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