Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932353AbWCMWLM (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:11:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932492AbWCMWLM (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:11:12 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:46256 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932353AbWCMWLL (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:11:11 -0500 Subject: RE: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Lee Revell Cc: davids@webmaster.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" In-Reply-To: <1142270171.25358.310.camel@mindpipe> References: <1142241857.19650.27.camel@tara.firmix.at> <1142270171.25358.310.camel@mindpipe> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:08:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1142287731.8407.9.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 34 On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 12:16 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:24 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > Maybe not under (US-American) copyright, but under continental > > European authors rights there are such possibilities (I leave it to > > lawyers if and when they apply) and you can't even remove them with > > contracts (as with all law stuff). > > Please refrain from knee-jerk USA-bashing, you said yourself you don't Whatever "knee-jerk" means, I'm not "USA-bashing" as such - at most I'm "copyright"-bashing (opposed to modern authors rights. Copyright is also somewhat the predecessor of modern authors rights so there is room to improve there.) and/or just reminding several people that US law is not the only relevant in the world. > know the law. Yes, I'm not a lawyer, but I do know some parts of it enough to have an opinion. And when it comes to details and special circumstances, the specialists should speak up. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/