Re: Linux on the desktop - it's come a long way, but is it there yet?

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:11 -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 18:00 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: 
> >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:07:11PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> >>> upstream contributions. However, I do have insider knowledge[*] that 
> >>> they do NOT send kernel contributions upstream to Debian or anyone else. 
> >>> Canonical's "fixes" and "enhancements" are more or less considered 
> >>> "secret sauce" and a competitive advantage. 
> >> 
> >> That is a violation of the GPL 
> > 
> > No, its not. It violates the *spirit* of the GPL, but not the letter, 
> > because the source is all readily available. They just don't do anything 
> > to actively push the patches into the upstream kernel. 
> > 
> 
> It's certainly not a violation of the GPL if they distribute the source for 
> their changes (which I'm sure they do).  I don't know about the "spirit" of 
> the GPL, since the spirit is about sharing and they do share.  What they're 
> not doing is being a good community member by doing the work to push their 
> changes upstream (ie it's up to someone else to pick up their changes and 
> submit it to the linux kernel review process).