Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Port of Linux is free?

[Sebastian Gerhardt]

Hi, 

as far as I understand this, he means that the kernel has to be compiled
with a special option activated. He is only aware of one distributor who
ships a kernel which is configured with this option per default.

But every decent GNU/Linux distribution, including GnuSense, gives you
the means to compile your own kernel with this option. So in my opinion,
there is no problem here.

If he plans to distribute kernel patches from Savannah, we need to pay
attention whether they have the "any later clause", as this is often
forgotten when people write stuff for the GPLv2 only Linux.




On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 17:35 -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
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> December 7th 2009 for savannah-hackers-public thread "Port of Linux is
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> This proyect https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?9952 says to use
> "a specially modified Linux kernel" wich is "exist only for the Axis
> Communications CRIS ports of Linux in the mainline version of the
> Linux kernel."
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> AFIK Linux contains propietary blobs but I are unsure if this specific
> port have blobs. If someone knows please tellme so I can begin to
> evaluate the project.
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