Re: Keeping files away from users - THANKS!!

[Geoff Crompton <geoff.crompton@bjhcontrols.com.au>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 08:58:43PM +0200, Luis Gomez - InfoEmergencias wrote:
> Other interesting things to look at:
> 
> - LICENSING ISSUES. As Peter Cordes commented, the kernel is GPL so if we 
> integrate code into it, we cannot provide a binary-only version, we should 
> also give away the sources (or use modules, but we want a monolythic kernel 
> for obvious security reasons). However I don't see the problem in thinking of 
> something like this, implementing it, documenting, giving away to the 
> community... and later configuring it for our particular needs, so that a 
> client cannot (initially, at least) break it.
> 

  I suppose if you used a BSD system, you could do this kernel modification 
and not have to provide the source. The userland side of the system is
going to be very similar.

  Geoff Crompton