Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753329Ab3JOGm6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:42:58 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com ([209.85.212.180]:64361 "EHLO mail-wi0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750965Ab3JOGm5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:42:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20131013120201.GA23970@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <20131013120201.GA23970@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:42:56 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time" From: Rogelio Serrano To: Pavel Machek Cc: "luke.leighton" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1394 Lines: 32 On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> I dont think the majority of linux kernel developers care about >> enforcement at all. Its virtually public domain as far as i can see, >> Linus himself will not run after violators. >> >> Any company out there is free to do what they want. > > Not sure what you are smoking but it must be pretty strong stuff. > > Pavel > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html I was led to believe this in the busybox list. maybe we are communally smoking the same stuff. Linux Kernel Developers would rather go on developing better code than waste time on enforcement. Some even think it is counter productive to adoption of linux. Transcend most likely knows this. You have a piece of code under the GPL and the majority of the copyright holders say they will not enforce it. Thats virtually public domain code. Thats why i stopped contributing to the linux kernel and opted to maintain a massive patch instead. -- 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/