Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757430AbXIRXe6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:34:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751672AbXIRXev (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:34:51 -0400 Received: from mx.freeshell.ORG ([192.94.73.19]:65064 "EHLO sdf.lonestar.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750939AbXIRXeu (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:34:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:34:39 +0000 From: Jacob Meuser To: misc@openbsd.org Cc: Theodore Tso , Marco Peereboom , Claudio Jeker , Adrian Bunk , "Can E. Acar" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Hazelton , Eben Moglen , Lawrence Lessig , "Bradley M. Kuhn" , Matt Norwood Subject: Re: Wasting our Freedom Message-ID: <20070918233439.GA27907@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> Mail-Followup-To: misc@openbsd.org, Theodore Tso , Marco Peereboom , Claudio Jeker , Adrian Bunk , "Can E. Acar" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Hazelton , Eben Moglen , Lawrence Lessig , "Bradley M. Kuhn" , Matt Norwood References: <20070916195909.GA18232@stusta.de> <20070916203926.GA17863@schlund.de> <20070916211208.GC5502@thunk.org> <20070917125554.GB13179@diehard.n-r-g.com> <20070917133458.GA18360@thunk.org> <20070917192341.GB30119@diehard.n-r-g.com> <20070917204318.GE18360@thunk.org> <20070918090013.GU32213@nudo.bsws.de> <20070918112947.GA31223@peereboom.us> <20070918125647.GH18360@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070918125647.GH18360@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1088 Lines: 32 On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:56:47AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > all of the megabytes and megabhytes of flamewar is over these two > lines: > > > * Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Nick Kossifidis > > * Copyright (c) 2007 Jiri Slaby > > Petty, isn't it? Let's just say it's b.s. like this which is why, 16 > years ago, I decided to work with Linux instead of BSD. copyright assertion == claim of ownership, or posession. posession is 9/10 of the law. was it petty of UCB to claim copyrights over code USL claimed ownersip of? was it also petty of Novell to claim that they, and not SCO, owned the copyright to UNIX? sorry, but calling attribution claims of any sort "petty" is nothing short of dangerous ignorance. -- jakemsr@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.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/