Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262185AbUJ1U3M (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:29:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262446AbUJ1U2s (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:28:48 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:39588 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262878AbUJ1UZn (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:25:43 -0400 Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow From: Alan Cox To: "Kevin P. Fleming" Cc: davids@webmaster.com, Xavier Bestel , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <41814ACF.5000705@backtobasicsmgmt.com> References: <41814ACF.5000705@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1098991360.9557.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:22:43 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 22 On Iau, 2004-10-28 at 20:38, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > But there's the rub: acquiring it legally (for free) requires acceptance > of the license terms. If you do not accept the terms, or accept them but > later take actions which violate the terms you accepted, you can no > longer say that you "acquired it legally". You have violated the terms Thats not actually the case. The law in countries writes in additional implicit clauses you cannot avoid and also forbids clauses. Those clauses vary by country but you'd find in most of the world that a clause like 3. Not to be used by Women except for payment of a $500 additional tech support fee would not be enforcable - 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/