Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754437AbXIDT2o (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:28:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752615AbXIDT2g (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:28:36 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:49550 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752375AbXIDT2f (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:28:35 -0400 Message-ID: <46DDB1CB.8080306@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:28:11 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Hazelton CC: Krzysztof Halasa , davids@webmaster.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing References: <200709032020.04989.dhazelton@enter.net> <200709041313.22831.dhazelton@enter.net> In-Reply-To: <200709041313.22831.dhazelton@enter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Sep 2007 19:28:15.0708 (UTC) FILETIME=[BD9AB9C0:01C7EF29] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1187 Lines: 28 Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >>Daniel Hazelton writes: >> >>>US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she >>>may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a >>>specific person or group of people. (There are some exceptions, but they >>>do not apply to the situation that is being discussed) The OpenBSD policy page doesn't agree with you: "...That means that having granted a permission, the copyright holder can not retroactively say that an individual or class of individuals are no longer granted those permissions. Likewise should the copyright holder decide to "go commercial" he can not revoke permissions already granted for the use of the work as distributed, though he may impose more restrictive permissions in his future distributions of that work." http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html Chris - 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/