Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:46:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
       "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>, andersen@codepoet.org,
       jgarzik@pobox.com,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
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Alan,

Last time I checked, if there is a bug, you submit a report, and it is
fixed or a solution to fix it is reviewed/accepted.

BUGREPORT: GPLv2 is broken and leaves the kernel in a near unprotected
state where authors/copyright holders must bare the cost to defend their
works.

FIX: Migration to OSL 1.1 with language to address compatiblity issues
with GPLvN operating in an OSL enviroment.

ACTION: Using the credits list as a principle test for initial contract
for disclosing terms of migration.

Come on, don't be a stick in the mud.  This is Linux, the definition of
doing it better and faster.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On 23 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 20:08, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > GPL provides no means to enable the author/copyright holder to defend and
> > recover legal fees occurred during discovery and litigation.
> 
> I don't think anyone says the GPL is a perfect license
> 
> > What I find odd in you politics which stinks, is you and redhat are
> > pumping OSL into new features which are not generally submitted to the
> > standard base.  I do not care, but it does look funny.
> 
> Red Hat is using OSL for various new projects based on the fact that
> lawyers and legal scholars think that the OSL is the better license to
> be using and that it achieves desired goals for free software. The
> kernel however is GPL and its kind of hard to change that. Certainly Red
> Hat can't do that. 
> 
> OSL wasn't around when the kernel began or my guess is Linus would have
> gone that way to avoid political baggage.
> 
> 
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