Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030650AbWI0TLe (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:11:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030652AbWI0TLe (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:11:34 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:47305 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030650AbWI0TLd (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:11:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:11:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Chase Venters cc: Alan Cox , Jan Engelhardt , Sergey Panov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1159319508.16507.15.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <1159342569.2653.30.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <1159359540.11049.347.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 24 On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Chase Venters wrote: > > The reason a clause such as that will work is that people have no natural > right to redistribute Linux. Right. Any copyright license will basically say "You can distribute this assuming you do so-and-so" and a contract can actually extend on that and also limit you in other ways than just distribution, ie you can sat "You can buy this, but you cannot legally benchmark it" However, none of that actually extends your "derived work" in any way. Linus - 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/