Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423137AbXBPENu (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:13:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423140AbXBPENu (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:13:50 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:54144 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423137AbXBPENu (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:13:50 -0500 To: "v j" Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers References: <9b3a62ab0702142115m4ea7d2c0m6869eb64ef3ee14e@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142116n4069e16cl1bc8f546f41d935@mail.gmail.com> <1171524970.12771.568.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <9b3a62ab0702150004n78763d4ei652b41c7edcd0755@mail.gmail.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:13:35 -0200 In-Reply-To: <9b3a62ab0702150004n78763d4ei652b41c7edcd0755@mail.gmail.com> (v. j.'s message of "Thu\, 15 Feb 2007 00\:04\:26 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) 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: 1185 Lines: 28 On Feb 15, 2007, "v j" wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding... Linux is not royalty >> free. Just the royalty is not in the form of cash, but in the form of >> having to give your improvements back to the open source world. It's not giving back, it's giving forward. Improvements don't have to go back, but whoever receives them must receive them under the same license. > Sure. But this is not legally binding. Indeed, you don't have to give it back or give it forward. It's just that, if you don't comply with the license, you don't have permission to distribute the software at all. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} - 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/