Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757006AbYG3PvV (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:51:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752537AbYG3PvN (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:51:13 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.231]:56928 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751996AbYG3PvN (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:51:13 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=BUrVYahaeBLRWpsa7zEqTVS06UA93leo+0IDuyZHvKKKFjoI3gjuUOoOLXBzp/cab2 nLMlrtMf2kWmevYjzmCSU0LB5En4Hs71ZBOvvt4M1ckRNszFVSC1g/AtQi7K8CQ0qPv/ n2aQ9vzHNv/KphnLlM+0hJVYR7P4iN/9WN1FQ= Message-ID: <9e4733910807300851y2121667fqf8547cdd27ecc6b8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:51:11 -0400 From: "Jon Smirl" To: "Alan Cox" Subject: Re: 463 kernel developers missing! Cc: davids@webmaster.com, "Stefan Richter" , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" In-Reply-To: <20080730161408.4dfa6fe8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4890284E.3050806@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20080730155359.7c0206f4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <9e4733910807300823x516eb45dx877898f9d7c8be57@mail.gmail.com> <20080730161408.4dfa6fe8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 854 Lines: 24 On 7/30/08, Alan Cox wrote: > > > The GPL doesn't trump data protection law. It can't. > > > > By making a submission to a GPL'd project didn't you grant a license > > for your data to be used? That was Ted's point when he posted the > > developer's certification. > > > Data protection law trumps the GPL. The fact my address is public does > not give you the rights globally to process it. > There are a lot of companies (including Google's code database) indexing the kernel source and processing it into new form. What is their standing? -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com -- 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/