Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265896AbTFSSy0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:54:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265897AbTFSSy0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:54:26 -0400 Received: from moutvdom.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.249]:9928 "EHLO moutvdom.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265896AbTFSSyZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:54:25 -0400 From: Thorsten =?iso-8859-1?q?K=F6rner?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Troll Tech [was RE: Sco vs. IBM] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:08:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <170EBA504C3AD511A3FE00508BB89A920234CD34@exnanycmbx4.ipc.com> <03061913583400.25866@tabby> In-Reply-To: <03061913583400.25866@tabby> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306192108.13032.thorstenkoerner@123tkshop.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1145 Lines: 33 Hi Jesse Am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2003 20:58 schrieb Jesse Pollard: > On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:37, Downing, Thomas wrote: > > I'm no authority, but IMHO > > > > > In article <20030619141443.GR29247@fs.tum.de>, > > > > > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Which makes no sense. You're not at the mercy of Linus or the > > > kernel developers, neither at that of the KDE developers, but > > > TrollTech controls the KDE desktop wrt commercial apps. > > > > No, they don't. KDE uses the GPL for QT. If I build a commercial > > app using KDE, it is GPL. If I build a commercial app not using > > KDE, but using commercial QT, that has no effect on the KDE desktop. > > Lets see... > > SCO releases Linux code under GPL... Did they ?!? No they didn't They are talking about old Unix-Licenses, not about Linux. And SCO also has not licensed Unix to IBM themselves. CU Thorsten - 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/