Re: [OT] kernel 3.14-rc2 for Testing

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2014-02-11 07:20 +0100, Pablo Zuñiga wrote:

> We have completed the preparation of the 3.14-rc2 kernel, is cooked and
> stored in https://github.com/ed00m/kernel2Debian/tree/master/3.14/3.14-rc2-amd64

You might want to read the license of the Linux kernel, it states that
if you distribute binaries you also have to provide sources or at least
offer them.  Here is the relevant excerpt:

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|   3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
| under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
| Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
| 
|     a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
|     source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
|     1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
| 
|     b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
|     years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
|     cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
|     machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
|     distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
|     customarily used for software interchange; or,
| 
|     c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
|     to distribute corresponding source code.  (This alternative is
|     allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
|     received the program in object code or executable form with such
|     an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
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So if there's a backdoor in your kernel images, show us the code. ;-)

Regards,
        Sven