Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759504AbYBFUaf (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:30:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755663AbYBFUaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:30:21 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35292 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755662AbYBFUaT (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:30:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:28:10 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Christer Weinigel Cc: David Newall , Marcel Holtmann , Pekka Enberg , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only Message-ID: <20080206202810.GA16257@kroah.com> References: <20080125180232.GA4613@kroah.com> <20080202123710.42df1aa0@weinigel.se> <20080202191930.GA19826@kroah.com> <47A5D9CD.5070001@davidnewall.com> <84144f020802030743j1278ac64j2ee3e2cbc5c3fefc@mail.gmail.com> <47A5E67D.9040804@davidnewall.com> <1202058820.15090.60.camel@violet> <20080205203418.GA5819@kroah.com> <20080206211448.78c1a23f@weinigel.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080206211448.78c1a23f@weinigel.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1103 Lines: 25 On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:14:48PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:34:18 -0800 > Greg KH wrote: > > > In the end, it's up to the copyright holders to enforce the license. > > And as I have stated in the past, a number of them have made public > > statements as to what they think about this issue. And it corresponds > > exactly with what Marcel has stated above. > > > > So if you wish to violate the copyright of others, you take the risk > > that you might be caught and punished, something that you and your > > legal council needs to take into account. > > So when do you sue Nvidia, ATI, Atheros, Broadcom[1], > M-Systems/Sandisk[2] or Nokia? All those companies distribute binary > drivers for Linux without providing source code? How do you know that such legal action isn't already happening? greg k-h -- 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/