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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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/var/local/system/fixup
is no more the end-user's property than |
Nope - we are talking apples and oranges here.
If Amazon where to 'wipe' (not selectively delete selected sub-part and/or contents) /var/local/* - -
Then the 'wipe' I was referring to would be illegal because parts of the /var/local/* sub-tree's contents belong to the end-user.
But if the word 'wipe' is meant to mean they selectively delete parts of the system which they supply, then it is no different than any other part of the system they supply.
I.E: The reason they keep their hands off of /mnt/usr/* (or its underlying storage).
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Amazon is breaking (one interpretation) of the GPLv2 code in their initramfs system -
(Which I went to lengths to document here at one time.)
But that one is a hard one to drag through the courts without a very technically knowledgeable court.
The biggest opportunity for legal action will be when (if) we can catch them using GPLv3 code.