Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756664AbXF2VGR (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:06:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754321AbXF2VGE (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:06:04 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:60035 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754173AbXF2VGB (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:06:01 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0 To: Alan Cox , Rene Herman , William D Waddington , Helge Hafting , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Boldi , Rusty Russell Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:05:46 +0200 References: <8AH0j-3Qc-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <8AH0j-3Qc-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <8B0vZ-r6-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <8B46G-69z-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <8B52G-7C9-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <8BalK-7Ic-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <8BaYr-8tJ-17@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/mDr3tkFLnjtX2JhCRwiHvqEOka6Sxyt4h3hr blmdQ5CDo5t2Kcq0vw+QB4dIFjcGFeNlp5G8dKPox2yvIrC9Vv 979Ow++nBEpOsErRxkaUA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1764 Lines: 34 Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:27 +0200 > Rene Herman wrote: >> On 06/28/2007 06:30 PM, Alan Cox wrote: >> > Public domain is GPL compatible. >> >> Would you happen to have an opinion on the attached? I don't so much need it > > The answer is "NO!!!!" > > Public domain also means "I don't have to give you the source". > If its merged with the kernel the resulting work is GPL anyway > >> Stating that code which one intends to be in the public domain has "GPL and >> additional rights" is a bit of a travesty though. > > Indeed if its public domain you may have almost no rights at all > depending what you were given. Once you get the source code you can do > stuff but I don't have to give you that. If its public domain I can find > security holes in it, and refuse to provide the fixed module in source > form even. The GPL forces nobody to not release his module under PD, therefore it can't protect you from that. Even minor changes - like adjusting the module to use to the current API - won't change that, at least in Germany they'd have to qualify as a work of their own in order to create a GPL-only derived work, because anything not qualifying for that could also be integrated into the PD version, and both would remain identical. -- "Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." -U.S.A.F. Ammo Troop Fri?, Spammer: 8wfPvrtu@j0o.7eggert.dyndns.org r@2ypKo.7eggert.dyndns.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/