GPL breached

[Aurélien Naldi]

On 3/9/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:10:27 +1100
> skaller <skaller at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I seem to be running kernel 2.6.12, however sources
> > for this kernel are not available as packages. 2.6.11 is.
> >
> > I consider this a breach of at least the spirit of GPL,
> > if not an actual licence violation.
> >
> > Any chance of 2.6.12 sources as a package?
>
> $ apt-cache search linux-source 2.6.12
> linux-patch-ubuntu-2.6.12 - Ubuntu patches to Linux 2.6.12
> linux-source-2.6.12 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.12 with Ubuntu
> patches
>

even without these "special" source packages for the kernel, you can
grab the source of any ubuntu package with apt-get source.
"binary" package of the kernel source exists only to make it easier to
build a custom kernel without adding deb-src line to your sources.list
:)

just run:
sudo apt-get build-deb <yourpackage>
apt-get source <yourpackage>
cd <yourpackage-version>
[customize build]
fakeroot debian/rules binary



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aurelien naldi