Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:18:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:18:50 -0500 Received: from h-64-105-35-9.SNVACAID.covad.net ([64.105.35.9]:43709 "EHLO freya.yggdrasil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:18:48 -0500 From: "Adam J. Richter" Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:27:10 -0800 Message-Id: <200301120927.BAA17236@baldur.yggdrasil.com> To: paul@clubi.ie Subject: Re: Honest does not pay here ... Cc: andre@linux-ide.org, andrew@indranet.co.nz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2206 Lines: 43 Paul Jakma writes: >And frankly, courts in most parts of the world will look at community >practice as a (slightly weaker than a court case) precedent [...] Since you imply that you are familiar with "courts in most parts of the world", I'd be interested if you could identify, and, ideally, quote the court decisions or laws that define this "community practice as a (slightly weaker than court case) precedent" doctrine, presumably some kind of extension of stare decisis that I haven't heard of before. Apparently, findlaw hasn't heard of it either. "community practice" only turned up one clearly inapplicable hit (in quotation marks so as not to turn up every page containing the words "community" and "practices") about "studies performed in community practice settings involving thousands of patients." In comparison, "contributory infringement" turned up 75 hits, 129 hits for "stare decisis", 246 hits for "court precedent." I don't see anything relevant from poking around google, but there were a lot of hits. Anyhow, as far as I can tell, no copyright owner other than Linus has given permission to use their code with proprietary modules. If you want to give people permission to use _your_ code under terms essentially identical to the LGPL (since you can always write wrapper functions) then feel free to state that you are granting that permission, or, perhaps more simply, LGPL your contributions. I'm not a lawyer. This is not intended as legal advice. Also, if you do not answer my question clearly and honestly or I otherwise think you've danced around it, then I may not be able to prioritize any more time to you respond further. That does not imply agreement. Adam J. Richter __ ______________ 575 Oroville Road adam@yggdrasil.com \ / Milpitas, California 95035 +1 408 309-6081 | g g d r a s i l United States of America "Free Software For The Rest Of Us." - 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/