Subject: Re: PS2 Linux Kit: Too good to be true; I knew it.
To: RC5Stint <rc5stint@yahoo.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 07/13/2001 18:32:18
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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