David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> said:
> brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de said:
[...]
> > Don't be silly. "Complete source code" means the source needed to
> > rebuild the binary, nothing more. If that is a mangled version derived
> > from some other source, so be it. You are explicitly allowed to
> > distribute changed versions, but only under GPL. [IANAL etc, so...]
> I disagree. A preprocessed source file with all the variables renamed to
> random strings would suffice to rebuild the binary, and is obviously not
> acceptable -- being able to rebuild the binary is not the only criterion.
That isn't "source" in my book.
> "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work
> for making modifications to it."
Right. And you can take the kernel-source RPM, and update drivers &c just
as you would on the original source + patchsets
> Note that the GPL doesn't say you have to give it in the preferred form for
> _building_ it, but the preferred form for _modifying_ it.
> In the opinion of many devlopers, the preferred form of the Linux kernel for
> maintaining it is a set of individual patches against the closest
> 'official' release, and not a tarball containing already-modified code.
That is exactly that: An opinion (or preference) of many (or so you do
think). Not legally binding, AFAIKS...
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