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polskibus on Nov 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A peek at the massive scale of AWS

I wonder how much of this custom tweaking ends up back in the Linux community due to GPL? If I am interacting with a GPL hypervisor, can I request sources for it for instance? I mean AWS is a huge Linux success story, does anyone know if Amazon gives anything back?

aragot on Nov 23, 2014 [–]

With GPL, you only must distribute the source to those whom you distributed the binaries. Which means, Amazon isn't required to give back.

Besides, I don't remember examples of Amazon being nice - not that it doesn't happen but they don't communicate on it.

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