Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 15:59:04 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:45:29PM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >...it should be very easy to opensource simple 'something' layer. If
> >it is so complex it is 'hard' to opensource, it is missdesigned,
> >anyway... so fix the design.
> >  
> 
> It's not a design issue - it's a legal issue at this point, and one that 
> I'm not qualified to come up with a good answer for.

Then I suggest you press these issues with those within your company who
are qualified to answer it.  Otherwise we will not get anywhere with
this line of discussion :(

As someone who has dealt with many corporate lawyers with topics like
this, I wish you lots of luck,

greg k-h
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