Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265658AbTF3D4X (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:56:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265629AbTF3D4X (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:56:23 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:22027 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265658AbTF3D4S (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:56:18 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:07:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Alan Cox cc: Svein Ove Aas , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL In-Reply-To: <1056882823.16249.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> 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: 1587 Lines: 43 Where is Dell's Head Quarters? Please goto your local justice and get a UK ruling for a US Corporation. What gives you the right to pursue in court GPL for materials you do not have copyright ownership? I use this loose in this case because you now have copyright context in the material in question. Third party defense will be laughed out of court. I know first hand that I can not take "RAIDZONE" to court yet to sue for GPL violation to get the code back into the community and monetary damages, until I fully file a registered copyright and not the halfassed crap of just sticking you name and email address in a file. I am in the process of getting the formal registered copyright. I will take GPL to court and will not settle out of court. GPL will live or die in this case, I do not give a damn which way it falls. GPL wins great. GPL loses, maybe better so it can be replaced with OSL and then it gets serious because we will have teeth to defend the ideas of open source. Cheers, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On 29 Jun 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2003-06-29 at 05:22, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > Everyone here forgets, GPL is WORTHLESS without a "REGISTERED" copyright. > > Wrong, thats a weird US copyright law flaw that applies only to US > citizens. The Berne convention gives everyone else rights. > - 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/