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To: unconditionedwitness@redchan.it Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20180919081812.020f19e3@lwn.net> <72dadc76-44fe-ecb5-e142-0a9129082c93@cantab.net> <20180920041846.GA4418@1wt.eu> <206423b0a199c1f12e61364d6e687e09@redchan.it> From: Edward Cree Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 23:57:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <206423b0a199c1f12e61364d6e687e09@redchan.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 20/09/18 10:27, unconditionedwitness@redchan.it wrote: > Contributors can, at any time, rescind the license grant regarding their > property via written notice to those whom they are rescinding the grant > from (regarding their property (code)). I know others have already said it, but: This is legally nonsense. The only way I can revoke someone's rights to my code under the GPL is if they violate the terms of the GPL. If I were to do so otherwise, then _I_ would be in violation for having distributed derived works of the kernel without a GPL, not to mention the obvious reliance/estoppel problems. Moreover, even if I _could_ revoke the license, I wouldn't want to do so; it would be ridiculously petty in itself and the precedent it would set would be destructive to the entire open-source community, about which I care deeply. It is _because_ Linux and other open-source projects are so important to humanity that I spoke up about what I perceive as a threat to it. In short, "unconditionedwitness", please shut up. You're not helping.