On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:28PM -0400, RC5Stint wrote:

 > Sony is withholding important source files!
 > 
 > Someone ought to sue the bastards for breaking the GPL.  This will teach
 > other companies around the world not to mess with open source.

You don't really have any grounds to sue, since if these are modules loaded
at RUN-TIME, it's not part of the kernel proper, and thus are not a derivative
work of the Linux kernel.

 > 
 > This is just the same shit they pulled with the source code to PS2 YABASIC.
 > 
 > RC5Stint
 > ------------------------------------------------------
 > FROM: YAEGASHI Takeshi <t@keshi.org>
 > DATE: 07/12/2001 19:22:03
 > SUBJECT: RE: [Ps2hacking-devel] No source!
 > 
 > In the message <20010624042627B.t@keshi.org>,
 > YAEGASHI Takeshi <t@keshi.org> wrote:
 > >
 > > I've noticed that sources of some kernel modules are
 > > not provided by PS2 Linux kit.  They include:
 > >
 > > 	/lib/modules/2.2.1_ps2/misc/ps2cdvd.o
 > > 	/lib/modules/2.2.1_ps2/misc/ps2mc.o
 > > 	/lib/modules/2.2.1_ps2/misc/ps2pad.o
 > > 	/lib/modules/2.2.1_ps2/misc/ps2sd.o
 > > 	/lib/modules/2.2.1_t10000/misc/ps2cdvd.o
 > > 	/lib/modules/2.2.1_t10000/misc/ps2mc.o
 > > 	/lib/modules/2.2.1_t10000/misc/ps2pad.o
 > > 	/lib/modules/2.2.1_t10000/misc/ps2sd.o
 > >
 > > They are owned by kernel-modules-2.2.1_ps2-6 package
 > > and its SRPM has only tar'ed binaries.  It also has
 > > other binaries obviously under GPL, which may become
 > > a license problem.
 > >
 > > This means that we cannot get the specs for some important
 > > devices: CD/DVD drive, memory card, game pad, sound device.
 > >
 > > I'm afraid that this could discourage people's effort
 > > to port another kernel (including the latest Linux, BSD, eCos)
 > > to PS2 here and there.
 > >
 > > I suspect there are more files without source in the kit.  I
 > > asked SCEI about this issue, hope I can get the answer on
 > > Monday.
 > 
 > I completely forgot to report the particulars to this list.
 > 
 > I received the answer by mail from SCEI at June 29.  They admit there are
 > some kernel modules without sources in the PS2 Linux kit, and they have no
 > plan to ever release the sources.
 > --
 > YAEGASHI Takeshi <t@keshi.org> <takeshi@yaegashi.jp>
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