Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932858AbWLNQbG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:31:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932859AbWLNQbG (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:31:06 -0500 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:4290 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932858AbWLNQbE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:31:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:31:01 +0100 From: Olivier Galibert To: Dave Jones , Adrian Bunk , "Martin J. Bligh" , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , "Michael K. Edwards" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Message-ID: <20061214163101.GA43130@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Dave Jones , Adrian Bunk , "Martin J. Bligh" , Linus Torvalds , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , "Michael K. Edwards" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061214003246.GA12162@suse.de> <22299.1166057009@lwn.net> <20061214005532.GA12790@suse.de> <4580E37F.8000305@mbligh.org> <20061214130704.GB17565@redhat.com> <20061214150514.GI3629@stusta.de> <20061214161133.GD17115@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061214161133.GD17115@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1111 Lines: 24 On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:11:33AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 04:05:14PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > If a kernel developer or a competitor sends a cease&desist letter to > > such a distribution, the situation changes from a complicated "derived > > work" discussion to a relatively clear "They circumvented a technical > > measure to enforce the copyright.". > > C&D's don't work that way. They can enforce "don't ship my code" > but not "ship my code, or else". The modification would be just like > any other thats allowable by the GPL. Careful here. The "technical measure" protection is something unrelated to the copyright license itself. Cf the streambox vcr lawsuit for instance (settled though) where not implementing the handling of one bit that said "don't save to disk" in original code seemed to be illegal. OG. - 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/