Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261756AbTIMRp3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:45:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261815AbTIMRp3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:45:29 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:54939 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261756AbTIMRp2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:45:28 -0400 Subject: RE: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model] From: Alan Cox To: David Schwartz Cc: "Matt D. Robinson" , Timothy Miller , Pascal Schmidt , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1063475043.8702.18.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-5) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:44:03 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 861 Lines: 17 On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 00:26, David Schwartz wrote: > > On Gwe, 2003-09-12 at 22:47, Matt D. Robinson wrote: > Who is sending these letters? Who has no respect for the GPL and seeks to > add additional restrictions? IMO, these letters are almost as bad as the SCO > letters. Nobody has any business putting additional licensing restrictions > on code was placed under the GPL. Nobody I've talked to (legal folks included) seems to think they are additional restrictions, merely people enforcing their copyright rights against folks working as a group to conspire to create a derivative work prohibited by the GPL. - 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/