Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965716AbXBTA2w (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:28:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965725AbXBTA2w (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:28:52 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.231]:63448 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965716AbXBTA2u (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:28:50 -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=kpbQTQZmZ9lz0DHZEFYF+eaGl9+J71JBA2odSVUktm2jMaDME5NKFAUCz6BvJszzwJWBTewGQOdWi5vULSlKh+xf7J1m4x4XBfVzYbOo8R4bNkgr6S61++yCQUiqjRwwJ3zIJOHeBsepmBsXS+044NL9a5VHfVdB9FGY/GAsT0Q= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:28:49 -0800 From: "Michael K. Edwards" To: "Trent Waddington" Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers Cc: davids@webmaster.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , "Neil Brown" In-Reply-To: <3d57814d0702191526r5f594374t50a0203d2dc6d36e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3d57814d0702171726l403c7812n19f2a226cba02e5d@mail.gmail.com> <3d57814d0702191255l2ef21f72rf7d999a62c4ec19a@mail.gmail.com> <3d57814d0702191426m2fc3c1c6had125a2db165befe@mail.gmail.com> <3d57814d0702191458l1021caeyaefd7775398c5f2a@mail.gmail.com> <3d57814d0702191526r5f594374t50a0203d2dc6d36e@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2002 Lines: 37 On 2/19/07, Trent Waddington wrote: > Hang on, you're actually debating that you have to abide by conditions > of a license before you can copy a copyright work? > > Please, tell us the names of these appellate court decisions so that > we can read them and weep. Can we put the gamesmanship on "low" here for a moment? Ask yourself which is more likely: am I a crank who spends years researching the legal background of the GPL solely for the purpose of ranting incoherently on debian-legal and LKML, or am I a mid-career embedded software developer with an obsessive streak who has come to a realization how dangerous this whole EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL business is to his niche in the industry? Do I have an irrational hatred for people named Eben, or am I sick to the heart of seeing decent young kids' beliefs about the law perverted by a racketeer in attorney's clothing with (at an informed guess) somewhere between $300K and $2M a year in easy money from his web of "non-profit" shell companies? I may be _wrong_ -- but I'm not _witless_. Now, if you want to play games, get yourself a copy of this new-fangled invention called a "web browser", and Google for each set of capitalized words with a "v." in between that has appeared in my posts to LKML in the last few days. For extra credit, follow links to older posts, cleverly signposted with "http://". Repeat ad nauseam. When you have an argument to offer that isn't already a blenderized equine, preferably associated with a citation to one of those shiny URL thingies with an "edu" or a "findlaw" in it, or even one of those phrases with the magic "v.", I'm all ears. Good morning -- and if I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. - Michael - 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/