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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: s6 et al
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:58:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <524D77EC.70400@orlitzky.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524D69C2.20408@gmail.com>

On 10/03/2013 08:57 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> I'm not too sure about the kernel sources:
>> "is provided by Gandi and cannot be modified"
> 
> That's a GPL violation right there.
> 
> The developer absolutely totally cannot do that. He/she may refuse to
> provide support if the kernel image is not what is shipped, but by using
> Linux they have already bound themselves to an agreement that the
> sources must be provided and be modifiable. And, they have to host the
> sources on their own network or provide them on demand
> 

Don't worry, it's a misquote. The real one is,

  The kernel is provided by Gandi and cannot be modified

So you can't modify the running kernel on their VPS. Which is to say,
you probably /can/ but the thing will never boot again.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-02  5:04 [gentoo-user] s6 et al Bruce Hill
2013-10-02 14:44 ` William Hubbs
2013-10-02 14:52   ` Bruce Hill
2013-10-03 14:26     ` William Hubbs
2013-10-03 14:39       ` Pandu Poluan
2013-10-03 15:19         ` William Hubbs
2013-10-03 12:55   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-10-03 12:57     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-10-03 13:58       ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2013-10-03 14:09       ` Dragostin Yanev
2013-10-03 14:15         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-10-03 15:32           ` James
2013-10-03 16:36             ` William Hubbs
2013-10-03 22:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2013-10-04  1:24   ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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