Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:22:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:22:38 -0500 Received: from [208.132.17.2] ([208.132.17.2]:40462 "HELO aegis.indstorage.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:22:23 -0500 From: n0ano@indstorage.com Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:52:22 -0700 To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Module Licensing? Message-ID: <20011101165222.C4962@tlaloc.indstorage.com> In-Reply-To: <20011031144244.R607@ftsoj.fsmlabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:43:28AM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan- Come on, this is the US. You sue BOTH the web site AND the browser user (and the browser, the browser maker, the ISP that provided access, Sun for designing Java with this capability, ...) :-) On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 12:43:28AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Too bad those who drafted the GPL were not (competent) lawyers, either. > > Actually the GPL was drafted by lawyers. Any license when you dig at the > edges of how to exploit it gets just as nebulous, as horribly enough does > copyright law. > > The merging one is analogous to other fun things like in the US if a java > applet violates a patent when executed is it the web site or the browser > user who broke the rules... -- Don Dugger "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale n0ano@indstorage.com Ph: 303/652-0870x117 - 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/