Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763493AbYBHUWY (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:22:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761506AbYBHUWM (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:22:12 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:59854 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761551AbYBHUWL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:22:11 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: David Newall , Greg KH , Christer Weinigel , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:15:01 +0100." <1202462101.15090.300.camel@violet> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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> <84144f020802030848v160253feoa24c5ecefc7c91f5@mail.gmail.com> <1202240590.15090.119.camel@violet> <47AB0A76.3000404@davidnewall.com> <1202411113.15090.263.camel@violet> <47ABD317.5060805@davidnewall.com> <1202462101.15090.300.camel@violet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202502098_3263P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:21:38 -0500 Message-ID: <12245.1202502098@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 32 --==_Exmh_1202502098_3263P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:15:01 +0100, Marcel Holtmann said: > And while you are talking to a lawyer. Ask him/her if it is okay to > create a binary only application that uses a GPL library. Tell him/her It's perfectly legal to create such an application. It only gets interesting if you *distribute* it... (And yes, this is where you *have* to be pedantic about the wording used)... --==_Exmh_1202502098_3263P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHrLnScC3lWbTT17ARArW/AJ43ZcSCLNy5qo0MmVfEWgN8OTPUewCg2dUb RkE+I9kfYjamhIxPXOPrfq4= =37Pk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202502098_3263P-- -- 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/