Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751384AbWAaUQd (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:16:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751451AbWAaUQd (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:16:33 -0500 Received: from 8.ctyme.com ([69.50.231.8]:22437 "EHLO darwin.ctyme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751384AbWAaUQd (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:16:33 -0500 Message-ID: <43DFC59F.9080006@perkel.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:16:31 -0800 From: Marc Perkel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeff V. Merkey" CC: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Chase Venters , "linux-os \\(Dick Johnson\\)" , Kyle Moffett , Patrick McLean , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders References: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20060120111103.2ee5b531@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <43D13B2A.6020504@cs.ubishops.ca> <43D7C780.6080000@perkel.com> <43D7B20D.7040203@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7B5C4.5040601@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7D05D.7030101@perkel.com> <1138387136.26811.8.camel@localhost> <1138620390.31089.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43DF9D42.7050802@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43DFC0B3.3000909@perkel.com> <43DFB635.2000309@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <43DFB635.2000309@wolfmountaingroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1571 Lines: 41 Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Linus, >> >> For what it's worth, maybe you should run some of these issues past >> the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) or Robin Gross at >> IPJustice.org who might be able to review these issues and help make >> sure you're doing it right. > > > Great advice, however, the EFF are not experts in IP law. I would > suggest a good firm in Palo Alto, like Rosati, Goodrich and Sonsini, > they are experts > in corporate IP law and Corporate law in general. They would know all > the loopholes people and companies are likely to use. Stay away from > these > freebie Law Groups who are more likely to kiss your butt and tell you > waht you want to hear rather than what you NEED to hear. > OSDL should pick up the tab. It will cost around 30K for a good > analysis from them. > > Jeff > Actually EFF does have some good IP lawyers on staff and Robin Gross - a former EFF employee (robin@ipjustice.org) is also very up on this. And the prices is right too if you don't want to spend the big bucks. I would rather get legal advice from lawyer who care about GPL than lawyers who just want to run up a big fee and screw you in the end. It might be worth looking into doing it right before some other SCO type decides they can get rich by busting Linux. - 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/