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Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:04:10 +1030
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:25:33 +1030
> David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>     
>>>> It would not be improper to say that "such and such a lawyer said this
>>>> and that."  I'm not proposing that you breach their copyright in their
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It would be highly improper given these were business discussions
>>> involving companies using Linux.
>>>       
>> Then you should never have brought it up.  Since you never really said
>> what any lawyer told you, let's just forget that you did bring it up.
>>     
>
> I thought you would care that lawyers had discussed the matter.

I care, but I have no way of knowing what was advised.  I bet you a
dollar they never said that all kernel modules are derivative.  You
haven't said that they did, but the entire argument supporting, let me
call it "pro-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL", is based on the concept that they did.


> I hope it makes you very happy, welcome to
> my killfile.
Why would that bother me?  You said it before, anyway.  It was childish
then, and is childish now.
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