Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758227AbXJKTty (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:49:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754538AbXJKTtr (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:49:47 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:36022 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754477AbXJKTtr (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:49:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:54:08 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Crane, Matthew" Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , Subject: Re: Aggregation in embedded context, is kernel GPL2 prejudiceagainst embedded systems? Message-ID: <20071011205408.50f893de@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <20071011151543.GX16424@stusta.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; 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: 729 Lines: 20 On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:06:14 -0400 "Crane, Matthew" wrote: > Hi, > > I wasn't sure how to describe what the people and groups with the > mandate to defend open source software. There are people and groups > with such a mandate. The same as any other work generally: "The authors", "the rights holder", and sometimes "the state". In the case of something like the GPL possibly the recipient of a binary only version, although that is much less certain. 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/