Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161168AbWI1Oz6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:55:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161169AbWI1Oz5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:55:57 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:41390 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161168AbWI1Oz4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:55:56 -0400 Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Garzik , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Chase Venters , Theodore Tso , Jan Engelhardt , Sergey Panov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: <1159319508.16507.15.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <1159342569.2653.30.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <1159359540.11049.347.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060927225815.GB7469@thunk.org> <20060928094135.GB17873@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <451B9C1F.2040101@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:19:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1159456781.11049.432.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: 661 Lines: 15 Ar Iau, 2006-09-28 am 07:45 -0700, ysgrifennodd Linus Torvalds: > I have been told that legally, "putting something in the public domain" > isn't actually really possible in the US, but maybe that is something that > lawyers disagree about. Its also a very bad idea for another reason. In some parts of the world placing something in the public domain doesn't imply any kind of warranty or liability disclaimer. - 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/