Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932484AbWHQNXL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:23:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932485AbWHQNXL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:23:11 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:20704 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932484AbWHQNXJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:23:09 -0400 Subject: Re: GPL Violation? From: Alan Cox To: Grzegorz Kulewski Cc: Adrian Bunk , Patrick McFarland , Arjan van de Ven , Anonymous User , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <40d80630608162248y498cb970r97a14c582fd663e1@mail.gmail.com> <200608170242.40969.diablod3@gmail.com> <1155797656.4494.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200608170332.53556.diablod3@gmail.com> <20060817080243.GN7813@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:41:52 +0100 Message-Id: <1155822112.15195.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 17 Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 14:39 +0200, ysgrifennodd Grzegorz Kulewski: > Why does Linus and others let lawyers and courts decide in such > (important?) thing like what is allowed in Linux (or with Linux) and what > is not? Because licenses are bounded and defined by the law. In the case of copyright based rights they extend only to the thing that is copyrighted and any derivatives so the grey area is not one the GPL could clarify further. Alan - 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/