Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:50:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:50:42 -0500 Received: from due.stud.ntnu.no ([129.241.56.71]:2994 "EHLO due.stud.ntnu.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:50:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:57:41 +0100 From: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lang=E5s?= To: Rik van Riel Cc: Josh Myer , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules Message-ID: <20021120185741.GA8136@stud.ntnu.no> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 20 Rik van Riel: > > The only analogy i can think of is a remix of songs, and several people > > have gotten into wonderfully large lawsuits over that. > You can copyright songs, but not individual musical notes. Right, you need atleast a X number of notes to make it a copyrighted piece, doesn't have to be a whole song, tho. If someone snags 10-20 secs of a song, and puts it into his/her song that's violation of the copyrights (given that the person didn't ask for permission). But, then there's "what's the minimum"-question, and with code that's hard, and you would probably need a lawyer and a few settlements in the court-systems, if not even more, to get an agreement on this. -- Thomas - 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/