Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758182AbXFNXuo (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:50:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754881AbXFNXue (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:50:34 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:45345 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757218AbXFNXud (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:50:33 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:55:01 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Rob Landley Cc: Alexandre Oliva , Robin Getz , "Daniel Hazelton" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Greg KH" , "debian developer" , david@lang.hm, "Tarkan Erimer" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Message-ID: <20070615005501.0503daeb@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <200706141944.21280.rob@landley.net> References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <200706141014.21574.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> <200706141944.21280.rob@landley.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1034 Lines: 20 > B) There are actually manufacturers who would be happy with your straw man. > Lots of companies in the far east produce products that infringe on patents > from 30 different competitors, and rather than try to license everything > (which isn't even always possible) they spin off a shell company (or nested > series thereof), design and manufacture a product, sell a production run of > them into the distribution channel, and then dissolve the shell company > before the inventory hits retailers. But the time anybody is in a position This isn't just done for IPR, in fact in many fields IPR is a non-issue. The primary reason for this practice is to render US health and safety regulation irrelevant and to prevent class action suits if/when your device kills someone. Alan - 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/