Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:53:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:53:38 -0400 Received: from 62-190-217-165.pdu.pipex.net ([62.190.217.165]:24331 "EHLO darkstar.example.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:53:37 -0400 From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com Message-Id: <200210061706.g96H6J7V000837@darkstar.example.net> Subject: Re: BK MetaData License Problem? To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:06:19 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, mingo@elte.hu, davem@redhat.com, bcollins@debian.org, torvalds@transmeta.com In-Reply-To: <1033923506.22038.30.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> from "Alan Cox" at Oct 06, 2002 05:58:26 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 18 > > On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 15:08, Russell King wrote: > > The way BK openlogging works, it exports personal information out of the > > EU. This is explicitly prohibited under EU law, unless the owner of that > > personal information has explicitly granted that it may be used in that > > manner. > > You can give anyone you like your -own- personal info. That is your > problem. What you can't do is do that with someone elses. That's not the issue he is raising. What he is saying is that say I make a patch and E-Mail it to you, with a change log entry that says, "John Bradford did this 1337 patch", and then you pass it on to somebody outside the EU, then you've violated the EU regulation. John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/