Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964947AbXIGAgg (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:36:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964821AbXIGAg3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:36:29 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2378 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964823AbXIGAg2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:36:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:12:07 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Jeff Garzik Cc: davids@webmaster.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Message-ID: <20070906191206.GB4040@ucw.cz> References: <46DBCCD2.70800@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46DBCCD2.70800@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1475 Lines: 39 On Mon 2007-09-03 04:58:58, Jeff Garzik wrote: > David Schwartz wrote: > >Either license can grant you the right to distribute > >it, but how you get the > >rights to distribute has *NO* effect on the recipient. > >They receive a lawful > >copy and any rights the original author grants them > >under a license from > >that original author. You have no power to grant or > >modify rights to the > >original work. > > Secondary parties have the power to grant or modify > rights, if delegated to them by the original author. > > Relicensing and transfer of rights happens all the time. > How do you think most music gets into consumer hands? License is only a promise not to sue. Only original author is permitted to sue in BSD/GPL case. David seems right here. If Linus releases GPL/BSD program, you choose GPL and distribute it to me, and I put it into proprietary evil app, I am _ok_. You can't sue me, because you are not copyright holder. Linus can't sue me, because he BSD licensed it. => I'm fine. Yep, copyright law is strange, and you may be right outside U.S. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/