Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754826AbYB0AFo (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:05:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753665AbYB0AFa (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:05:30 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:36082 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753298AbYB0AF1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:05:27 -0500 To: davids@webmaster.com Cc: , "Andrew Morton" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" , , "Alan Cox" Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity. References: From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:05:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: (David Schwartz's message of "Tue\, 26 Feb 2008 15\:35\:21 -0800") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 819 Lines: 24 "David Schwartz" writes: > This is an obviously-wrong argument, Even if it's proven wrong in the end, the defendant may at least be found acting in a good faith. > All you can do in code is implement technical things. The GPL itself is the weapon, not the technical measures which can be legally trivially disabled (even if the modules are illegal). > You cannot enforce or > implement the license because the GPL prohibits that. Not sure what do you mean. I was under impression that a copyright holder can enforce GPL :-) -- Krzysztof Halasa -- 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/