Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262449AbVC3UEp (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:04:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262442AbVC3UEY (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:04:24 -0500 Received: from alog0191.analogic.com ([208.224.220.206]:53675 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262432AbVC3UB7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:01:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:57:49 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Rik van Riel cc: Steven Rostedt , Kyle Moffett , floam@sh.nu, LKML , arjan@infradead.org, Paul Jackson , gilbertd@treblig.org, vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, bunk@stusta.de Subject: Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200503280154.j2S1s9e6009981@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <1112011441.27381.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1112016850.6003.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1112018265.27381.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050328154338.753f27e3.pj@engr.sgi.com> <1112055671.3691.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1112059642.3691.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 953 Lines: 24 On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, linux-os wrote: > >> If there is documented proof that those symbols were previously >> available and then they were changed to something more restrictive, >> I think one would prevail if a complaint were brought in court. > > They're still available. Just download an older version of Linux. > Yes. And this would show that whomever did that already violated the intent of the GPL by adding restrictions to use. NotGood(tm). Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.11 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/