Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161050AbWI2M41 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:56:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161066AbWI2M41 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:56:27 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:11027 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161050AbWI2M40 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:56:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:42:50 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Chase Venters , Alan Cox , Jan Engelhardt , Sergey Panov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement Message-ID: <20060929124249.GA4931@ucw.cz> 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 32 Hi! > > 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. You are right, of course, but you can affect derived work by stuff such as: You may not copy Linux. As a special exception, you may copy/distribute Linux if you never copied Tolstoy before. That would probably work.... in cases like Tivo anyway. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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/