Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261646AbUKITqH (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:46:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261647AbUKITqH (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:46:07 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:16371 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261657AbUKITpn (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:45:43 -0500 Message-ID: <41911E43.1090607@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:45:07 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: davids@webmaster.com CC: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Dmitry Torokhov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Rigo_LKML?= Subject: Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox +code References: In-Reply-To: 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: 1191 Lines: 28 David Schwartz wrote: > They don't stop you, they just restrict you. They restrict you from getting new updates, they don't restrict you from distributing. The GPL says, "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein." Note the "granted herein" part. They can put all kinds of other restrictions on anything else, as long as they don't keep you from excercising your rights to modify and/or redistribute the code released under the GPL. > Look, this really is simple. When the GPL talks about "additional > restrictions", it doesn't mean the restrictions found in the GPL. It means > restrictions found elsewhere, such as in private contracts. (Where else > would the restrictions be?!) I believe you have misunderstood the GPL. They only disallow further restrictions on the rights that the GPL grants. They don't say anything about other contracts or obligations. 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/