Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932837AbWLSQzr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:55:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932832AbWLSQzr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:55:47 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.249]:22355 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932837AbWLSQzr (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:55:47 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aC3isbGBlLO4VQRPHdv8863uyD1HeI7rp8Z/lX/5Sn1f3exrAVrMUQkt/09ILJsOYc2BSFen+qA5hVKRc/Zw1TbggwD/4OhMsz3atAUcU4dvOui7usy/sGdB6vkhSooxipTQhO794FxU7AAzAX3+0UFrmtcpJw87K+tNVbtbMyo= Message-ID: <7b69d1470612190855t1df801as35852be1e25bd3c6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:55:44 -0600 From: "Scott Preece" To: davids@webmaster.com Subject: Re: GPL only modules Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7b69d1470612181435s505282f0r7c9c47d554f87ecf@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 23 On 12/18/06, David Schwartz wrote: > > > > First sale has nothing to do with this. First sale applies to the > > redistribution or resale of copies you have purchased, not with the > > right to make additional copies. > > First sale is exactly what this is about. Nobody needs to make "additional > copies" of the Linux kernel because I can download a thousand of them from a > computer operated by the guy in the office down the hall from me. --- This is an interesting argument that was new to me. However, it is not clear at all that First Sale applies to intangible copies. And it's not clear that there is a sale involved, legally. Again, IANAL, but I think this is seriously untested ground. scott - 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/