Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751384AbXBVEZD (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:25:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751387AbXBVEZD (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:25:03 -0500 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.228]:28093 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751384AbXBVEZB (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:25:01 -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=jw33xkcgI+AG6wcTqQ4Fem68FY/f7S77lyrgVT2vQXHs83nVutmTxb93vAz9Te41b9DzbkvT+ZD19Z2+j1y95JOiDohIslA/RZjpqhDlWaTG+EKAjXToiOcIWKAi5AirQjjUhDHZiIbHpaGtcdRoXVwRjj+S4DgVSBWz/gq1wUg= Message-ID: <3d57814d0702212024v67cc2863x64aea671798533f8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:24:59 +1000 From: "Trent Waddington" To: "D. Hazelton" Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers Cc: "Michael K. Edwards" , "David Lang" , davids@webmaster.com, "v j" , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , "Neil Brown" In-Reply-To: <200702212317.16262.dhazelton@enter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3d57814d0702191458l1021caeyaefd7775398c5f2a@mail.gmail.com> <200702212030.58317.dhazelton@enter.net> <200702212317.16262.dhazelton@enter.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 16 On 2/22/07, D. Hazelton wrote: > " We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and > (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, > distribute and/or modify the software." > --IE: Once you release the code under the GPL, it becomes the *copyrighted* > *property* of the FSF and you are just another person that the GPL is applied > to. Put *down* the crack pipe. 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/