Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (194 mails)

[Michael Kromer <mkromer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> > How useable that source is another question.  ie. providing it on
> > paper would satisfy the GPL as far as I know.  Fortunately, I've not
> > heard of any company trying to abuse the GPL like that.
>
> I have, believe me, they are out there, I have the proof of an
> obfuscated kernel driver that was sent to me as a printout a long time
> ago.
>
> Fortunatly, SUSE is not such a company.

Full ACK. Well, why should SUSE - Providing src rpms also drills down support 
costs, as partners etc. have the possibility to rebuild/patch rpms also in 
SLES, which in return makes the distro better after all. Printing out all code 
of a few thousand of packages consisting of millions of lines of code would for 
sure not be a good idea in terms of "green IT" as well... And SUSE _is_ green 
as we all know ... :)

- mike
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