Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:52:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:52:18 -0500 Received: from ip68-13-105-80.om.om.cox.net ([68.13.105.80]:26756 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:52:15 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:02:15 -0600 (CST) From: Thomas Molina X-X-Sender: tmolina@localhost.localdomain To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: Larry McVoy Subject: Re: openbkweb-0.0 In-Reply-To: <20030214203151.GL20159@fs.tum.de> 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: 1216 Lines: 29 On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:56:21PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Larry McVoy wrote: > > > Please show me the case law which says we have to give you our technology, > > > for free, and we do not have the right to say "no way unless you agree to > > > not reverse engineer". > >... > > Correct. You have the right to say "no way unless you agree not to > > reverse engineer". > >... > > Wrong. > > Current German copyright law says that any contractual appointments that > disallow the allowed cases of reverse engineering are void. In my view a great number of things are legal which I consider unethical. I believe Larry has made his position fairly clear and has attempted to construct his license language to implement that plain-spoken intent. Whether or not people agree with the stated position, I doubt there is anyone who doesn't understand it. Why not just do the clearly right thing and abide by that? - 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/