Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750792AbXBOVvv (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:51:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750813AbXBOVvu (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:51:50 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:6700 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750792AbXBOVvu (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:51:50 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tNjiSOFaHMj7UtQXfirgsYvYEpS7LbAoAexT5aGGmKPQ5o4+ziAvMfdjSiZC4GYioyeYZBhKGjfp/7MBo+QdFiUZxJZ0pgQnyETywDjzdlG8uk//SrWF4d5TTy2Rj79x0UJ4bR/nVUC+aOimwzYz2O6go2vfxzOHMpblgdwiI8M= Message-ID: <3d57814d0702151351i544f9efdh6c7dfc8be5a35c69@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:51:45 +1000 From: "Trent Waddington" To: davids@webmaster.com Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers Cc: "Neil Brown" , 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: <3d57814d0702142353n2d856f32k7b8d7909ea69cb04@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 917 Lines: 18 On 2/16/07, David Schwartz wrote: > Actually, the people who are being worms are the people who are trying to > use the GPL as a club to coerce people into not exercising the rights the > GPL gave them. The people trying to change the rules in the middle of the > game are the worms, not the people trying to play by them. I must have missed something, who is trying to coerce people into not exercising the rights the GPL gave them? I don't debate that people are trying to coerce people into passing on the rights the GPL gave them when they distribute the kernel... coercion, that's what software licenses are. Who's changing the rules? Trent - 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/