Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265772AbTF3Gp3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:45:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265768AbTF3Gp3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:45:29 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:25355 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265779AbTF3GpW (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:45:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:56:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Miles Bader cc: Alan Cox , Svein Ove Aas , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL 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: 1739 Lines: 42 Everyone else general talks out of their hat and not from a truly informed position. I will qualify the statement, having paid for legal advise from lawyers who specialize in the field of technology, copyright, and patent law. When they tell you they will not open a case on your behalf until a registered copyright is in hand, that point real hard. Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On 30 Jun 2003, Miles Bader wrote: > Andre Hedrick writes: > > 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. > > > > 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. > > Even if you are right about the need to register (I have no idea, though > everyone else seems to say otherwise), this seems like a bizarre > conclusion. If the problem is the lack of proper copyright > registration, how would changing the license make the least bit of > difference? > > -Miles > -- > `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive > that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products > less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist] > - 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/