[Diritto] IBM e GPL

Stefano Maffulli stef@zoomata.com
Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:48:42 +0100


On Saturday 22 December 2001 11:13, Davide Barbieri wrote:
> Trovato in una rivista:
>
> "Santa strikes us as an open source kind of guy and that being so
> we'd be willing to bet that a certain three-letter company in
> Armonk, New York is on his naughty list and is going to find coal in
> its stocking at Christmas.
>
> A mischievous little elf pointed us at page 135 of a 144-page
> document entitled "Linux for S/390" and it seems that IBM's added a
> little "disclaimer" to the GNU.
>
> "Elements of Linux for S/390 which utilise internal details of the
> S/390 systems remain the intellectual property and copyright of IBM,
> notwithstanding the (GNU) licence," it says.

Ho chiesto informazioni a IBM, ma non penso di avere risposta subito. Mi 
viene in mente pero` che il S/390 non si chiama piu` cosi (mi pare sia 
diventato zSeries) e quindi tale documento potrebbe anche essere vecchio.

farovvi sapere

ciao
stef