Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268342AbUJJQql (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:46:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268344AbUJJQql (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:46:41 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51895 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268342AbUJJQqk (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:46:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:46:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com To: Sam Hocevar cc: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" , , Subject: Re: possible GPL violation by Free In-Reply-To: <20041010162304.GA12933@zoy.org> 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: 1022 Lines: 25 On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > This leaves Free with 2 options: > I know the GPL and I know they don't appear to be doing any of these > two things. However it might be hidden in some obscure agreement between > Free and the user, renounced upon in such an agreement (which would > violate the GPL, like QuakeLives did) or indeed not be there at all. And > the only people who can verify this are the Freebox users. Even if the Freebox users were to renounce their own rights under the GPL, I do not see how they could renounce OUR rights for us ... -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan - 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/