Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161744AbXBPEVD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:21:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161745AbXBPEVD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:21:03 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55167 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161744AbXBPEVB (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:21:01 -0500 To: Chris Snook Cc: v j , Trent Waddington , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers References: <9b3a62ab0702142115m4ea7d2c0m6869eb64ef3ee14e@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142116n4069e16cl1bc8f546f41d935@mail.gmail.com> <3d57814d0702142147p4eede234ybc9880a38772f55f@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142214p5c33a02am7e783c59ae0a64f1@mail.gmail.com> <3d57814d0702142235i687f8481x4eb72269e7f7fa9b@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142246r7e4eac4bv26c2ed46ff588871@mail.gmail.com> <45D4C0E3.30600@redhat.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: Red Hat OS Tools Group Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:20:54 -0200 In-Reply-To: <45D4C0E3.30600@redhat.com> (Chris Snook's message of "Thu\, 15 Feb 2007 15\:21\:55 -0500") 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: 1080 Lines: 27 On Feb 15, 2007, Chris Snook wrote: > v j wrote: >> You don't get it do you. Our source code is meaningless to the Open >> Source community at large. You don't have to offer it to the community at large. You only have to pass it on to your customers, under the terms of the GPL. > Collaborating with the competition ("coopetition") on a common > technology platform reduces costs for anyone who chooses to get > involved, giving them a collective competitive edge against anyone who > doesn't. http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/papers/free-software/BMind.pdf -- 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/