Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261529AbUJXPzy (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:55:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261547AbUJXPyz (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:54:55 -0400 Received: from gate.firmix.at ([80.109.18.208]:50605 "EHLO gate.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261523AbUJXPxU (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:53:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <417B397D.2070106@drdos.com> References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <35fb2e590410221714205fe526@mail.gmail.com> <41799BEE.1030104@drdos.com> <35fb2e59041022175758ece5f9@mail.gmail.com> <4179E136.1090201@drdos.com> <417B397D.2070106@drdos.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Message-Id: <1098633174.8183.18.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:53:04 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2094 Lines: 52 [ Cc: trimmed again ] On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 07:11, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >Jeff, > > can you plkease stop Cc'ing me on this thread? > > Linus, [...] > >No, nobody I know (certainly not me) is willing to re-license Linux under > >anything else than the GPL. Quite frankly, I suspect you'll have an easier > >time just rewriting the whole thing. > > > I won't be "re-writing" anything. I've written something different that > takes all the Linux device drivers, > application layer, and a handful of file systems, and drops out most of > the core of Linux, and these > drivers I suspect will get rewritten over time. Since it's all open > source anyway, doesn't really matter. Yup. And whatever you create will be GPLed completely anyway. > >And no, the only offer from SCO I'm interested in is a public apology from > >Darl McSwine. Their made-up stories about copyright ownership weren't > >really that amusing a year ago, and now they're boring and stale. > > > Linus, you took code from these companies without bothering to check if Which is the prime question and has not yet been proved (not even in the juristical meaning, let alone in the technical/mathematical) - neither by you nor by SCO or anyone else. Even worse SCO is telling exactly that since months (without providing detailed or even any reasonable explanations that hold why one should believe in these words) and all supporting (so-called) "facts" from SCO vanished and did not proove anything. BTW this lead to a verdict in Germany that disallows all of these claims by SCO. [ all of the propaganda removed ] Bernd, not believing your and/or SCOs empty claims -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/