Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:54:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:54:02 -0500 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:39943 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:54:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:01:51 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: Richard Stallman cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Gauntlet Set NOW! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1844 Lines: 46 Richard, I am going to sell and ship binary only models which is solely a protocol. One which is in a working group and is not an offical document but will be ratified soon. I will not release the source code period. It is not a derived work. It can and will be capable of running it on other unixs as well has have a version for microsoft and maybe apple. The API and boundary will execute all kernel operations and calls outside of the core protocol. There is no hardware period. It is pure software. I am prepared to show the the source of the API callers; however, given the anal nature of the review I expect. I need a few more days to extract every damn possible kernel function or caller that is even close to my property. The object generated from that file will then be linked with a private closed source library, which may or may not be setup under LGPL. This would be the Library GPL and not the updated Lesser GPL. But I am not prepared to set this position yet. Are you prepared to SUE me ? Are you prepared to SUE others like me ? Are you prepared to SUE every company in Silicon Valley for embedded ? Are you prepared to SUE every settop box vendor ? Either, put up or walk on this issue. Fear, Threats, and Intimidation resulting from a willful grey zone so clearly and cleverly designed by yourself is not acceptable. Since I am in a position of loosing revenue today because of this silly issue of usage of headers and not any inline code inside them, I will seek counter damages if I am forced into litigation. Regards, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group - 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/