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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. Has the GPL ever been successfullly enforced? by ellem · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Has the GPL ever been successfullly enforced?

    Has it even needed to be enforced?

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  2. If there intent was IP... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Why didn't the RTLinux team focus on an xBSD solution?
    Linux was intended to be incompatible with "Free for me, but not for you."

    jeremiah cornelius

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  3. Linus involvement? by jeffy124 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    since the FSF isn't the copyright holder, they can't do much about it

    Could Linus Torvalds become involved in this case? I am not familiar with RTLinux, but since Torvalds is the trademark holder of the name "Linux" and provides the license for using and modifying it, would he be the one to push something like this further?

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  4. RTF-GPL by Darth+RadaR · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If RTLinux wanted to patent something, why the fsck base it off of a GPL'd product in the first place? It can only become a legal mess, and if FSM Labs wins in court, it's gonna piss off the FSF, OSS, and anything else slightly connected to Linux.

    You'd have to be insane to invoke that sort of bad kharma.

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  5. 'GPL violations' by SmileyBen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wish people would stop calling these things 'GPL violations'. What this is is a copyright violation. RTLinux is using someone else's copyright material without permission - no more, no less. That is illegal. Calling it a 'GPL violation', something which won't appear in any law anywhere seems silly, and just confuses the issue - which is plain and simple, and a matter of copyright.