Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261395AbVCaMse (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:48:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261412AbVCaMse (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:48:34 -0500 Received: from alog0015.analogic.com ([208.224.220.30]:43411 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261395AbVCaMs1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:48:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:34:46 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Sean cc: Rik van Riel , 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: <3343.10.10.10.24.1112268948.squirrel@linux1.attic.local> 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> <3343.10.10.10.24.1112268948.squirrel@linux1.attic.local> 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: 2385 Lines: 62 On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Sean wrote: > On Wed, March 30, 2005 2:57 pm, linux-os said: > >> Yes. And this would show that whomever did that already violated the >> intent of the GPL by adding restrictions to use. NotGood(tm). > > Dick, > > You are so full of shit. There are no additonal restrictions, just the > restrictions of the GPL; period. Adding _GPL to the symbol does not > place any additional restriction on the people who are already bound by > the GPL. Sure it does. Before the GPL-only stuff the only problem one would have with a proprietary module, i.e., one that didn't contain the GPL "license" notice, was that the kernel would be marked "tainted". Everything would still work. With the ADDITIONAL RESTRICTION added, the module won't even work because an ARTIFICIAL CONSTRAINT was added to prevent its use unless a GPL "license" notice existed. > You were much easier to endure when you were just pretending to > have invented RLE. > No pretense, and the original implementation, used under CP/M for *.LBQ files, given to the world through my PROGRAM EXCHANGE BBS in 1980, long before there was any GPL, was a much better implementation than what became known as "RLL" when the disc- drive people got ahold of it. For those, not in their '60s, *.LBQ was the early precursor to Phil Katz's *.ZIP files. He wasn't able to take the heat of all the people who kept putting him down. He died an early death. I'm going to outlast all you nay-sayers because when you write facts, you don't have to remember what you previously wrote so the liars can't hurt you. You see, with the original idea of free software, it was free. You were expected to leave any copyright notice alone. This free software idea was picked up by UC Berkeley once the Internet took hold. The rest is history about a neat idea that became corrupted, first by the likes of Stallman, then by others when it became a religion. > Sean > 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/