Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269779AbUJGWIx (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:08:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269845AbUJGWHg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:07:36 -0400 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:23245 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269779AbUJGV7i (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:59:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4165B3A0.3090003@drdos.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:22:40 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Friesen Cc: Alan Cox , jonathan@jonmasters.org, "jmerkey@comcast.net" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone References: <100120041740.9915.415D967600014EC2000026BB2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com> <1096738439.25290.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41659748.9090906@drdos.com> <4165A5E3.6050602@nortelnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <4165A5E3.6050602@nortelnetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1300 Lines: 44 Chris Friesen wrote: > Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >> We offer to kernel.org the sum of $50,000.00 US for a one time >> license to the Linux Kernel Source for a single snapshot of >> a single Linux version by release number. This offer must be >> accepted by **ALL** copyright holders and this snapshot will >> subsequently convert the GPL license into a BSD style license >> for the code. > > > For an unlimited use license of the linux tree, $50,000 USD is > ludicrously tiny. $50,000 per copy -- that's a hell of a pricetag. Windows only goes for $100.00 a copy. You guys should be flattered. Let's see, 10,000 companies x $50,000.00 a pop = $500,000,000 / year in license fees. What a deal. 500,000,000 / 300 developers = 1.1 million per year for each of you. Sounds like good business to me. Companies will line up to do this, and what's great is you will still get new licensees every year, so long as you keep ahead of the curve with innovation. Jeff > > Think of the number of man-years of work invested in the current tree. > > Chris > > - 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/