Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932893AbWLNStq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:49:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932894AbWLNStq (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:49:46 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.152]:61645 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932893AbWLNStp (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:49:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4581982B.5050604@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:30:03 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.7.12-1.4.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: "Martin J. Bligh" , David Woodhouse , 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] References: <20061214003246.GA12162@suse.de> <22299.1166057009@lwn.net> <20061214005532.GA12790@suse.de> <1166084480.5253.849.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <45818AFF.4060809@wolfmountaingroup.com> <4581916C.9060008@mbligh.org> <45819404.4080109@wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1580 Lines: 53 Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > >>Yeah, like that one. WITH THE POLITICAL AGENDA CODE REMOVED. >> >> > >No. That's really a purely technical thing. > > > > I'm not certain I understand what you mean here. Nasty messages using the word "taint" is purely subjective. (as is your opinion or anyone else's about the use of the word, including my opinion). Based upon the way the GPL is worded, "taint" actually goes the other way in legal circles when corporate attorneys talk about using GPL code with non-GPL code. i.e. "... If we use that linux code it will TAINT our development process and CONTAMINATE and POULLTE our proprietary development efforts with GPL code and we do not know the IP sources of such code...". You should change it to "non-GPL" rather than "tainted" since the use of this word is actionable and inaccruate of reality. Free GPL code is what it is. The GPL is the only thing that "taints" IP. The use of the word is reversed. Also Linus, we do open source and promote certain projects outside of the Linux Kernel -- and we fully support the GPL. You can still do whatever you want, but people who support the resulting mess know that they shouldn't. BULLSHIT. I diagree and you are talking out of both sides of your mouth. :-) Jeff > 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/