Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946011AbXBPRMN (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:12:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946015AbXBPRMN (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:12:13 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:42849 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946014AbXBPRML (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:12:11 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=YsKkqNjIvXR+AdZg/8OPBe2nZkthcE/MlPi09Tj2L3XkOP9sfMZ4xRTwzuZXBX57f69nvJcoE5cUvrYfvxJh+M1QTrPx3/U+ayZPYOul+HF4k1UEnVcAq3Jsy8q6D9AfvqufM3vsDcjwORnttRwiTXfmCRCYXpAXFKYY2w47SnA= Message-ID: <161717d50702160912x6dc4efbahcfb02f665ae3ec8a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:12:04 -0500 From: "Dave Neuer" To: davids@webmaster.com Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers 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: <3d57814d0702152245q19e19141me0b999fb051ac7b6@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 65a6b2d4042e4b22 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 673 Lines: 16 On 2/16/07, David Schwartz wrote: > > (See, among other cases, Lexmark. v. Static > Controls.) A copyright is not a patent, you can only own something if there > are multiple equally good ways to do it and you claim *one* of them. Only in a world where "write a Linux module" is a "functional idea." I don't think that the legal world in the US is an example of such a world, though you clearly do. Dave - 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/