Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161376AbWI2S23 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:28:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161377AbWI2S23 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:28:29 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:49025 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161376AbWI2S22 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:28:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:27:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Alan Cox cc: Helge Hafting , tglx@linutronix.de, Neil Brown , Michiel de Boer , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement In-Reply-To: <1159554375.13029.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <451798FA.8000004@rebelhomicide.demon.nl> <17687.46268.156413.352299@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1159183895.11049.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1159200620.9326.447.camel@localhost.localdomain> <451CF22D.4030405@aitel.hist.no> <1159552021.13029.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1159554375.13029.67.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: 1013 Lines: 25 On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Alan Cox wrote: > > thats the interpretation that has been accepted several times in out of > court GPL violation settlements. I think you can push that angle, and a lot of the time it will work in practice - because the companies involved are really not "evil", and most often they simply want to avoid any trouble. At the same time, in many cases the settlements seem to be very much about real issues, like not actually following the GPLv2 (giving no credit, not mentioning the license, not making sources available). Rather than about any imagined or real lock-down issues. There's certainly a _correlation_ between "locking down" and "being sleazy in general", but I don't think it's necessarily a causal relationship. 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/