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FSF Statement on Violation of GPL by RTLinux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the interesting-stuff dept.

bkuhn writes "The FSF has issued an official statement on the GPL violation by RTLinux." nothign surprising here, basically they say that RTLinux is violating the GPL by not releasing the source to their Linux kernel mods, but since the FSF isn't the copyright holder, they can't do much about it. Now it's up to RTLinux to decide if they are gonna do the right thing or not.Update: 09/16 00:48 AM GMT by H : Please check out these comments for more information - it's not a source code violation, but a patent issue.

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  1. I hope they do the wrong thing. by Win-Developer · · Score: 4, Funny

    C'mon...I hope they take a stand. I'd like to see someone rock the boat. They obviously don't want to give up their hard work to the general public. Let's see how it pans out. What's the worst that could happen?

    Is it possible for someone to sue these guys over something that's free?

  2. I think Richard M. Stallman holds the copyright by Macaw2000 · · Score: 1, Funny

    And it's not Linux. It's GNU Operating System or something like that.

  3. GNU is an operating system? by Merk · · Score: 3, Funny
    GNU is a Free Software Unix-like operating system. GNU/Linux is the integrated combination of the GNU operating system with the kernel, Linux.

    I thought that GNU was a project, a recursive acronym, and a bunch of utilities (GNU Software), used in operating systems like Debian, RedHat, Slackware...

    The software on one of my RedHat 7.1 machines includes a large number of GNU tools, as well as the Linux kernel, as well as Apache, Gnome, KDE... But according to the FSF, the operating system is "GNU"?

    It seems that not only is the GPL viral, but the GNU term itself keeps growing in what it is supposed to mean...