Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 05:14:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 05:14:38 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:55561 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 05:14:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3D52377B.F3CAE80@aitel.hist.no> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:18:51 +0200 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [no] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.30 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ethtool documentation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1152 Lines: 28 Alan Cox wrote: >Jonathan Lundell wrote: >> Ha! Just wait until the jack-booted IEEE enforcers kick down *your* >> door in the middle of the night to nab you for MAC-address trespass. >> THEN we'll see who' protesting too much. > > Just don't use it to go around proprietary software license managers, > because if so the fbi might just do that... I wouldn't worry aboyt that. A licence manager depending on MAC addresses simply isn't doing its job. Moving a ethernet card from one computer to another is perfectly legal if you own both of them. So it is the licence manager that is broken. I know no law that require IEEE conformant networks either. If I want to run a net with crazy MAC addresses then I can do so - and deal with interoperability problems myself. Piracy is still illegal of course, but nobody can force me to keep a broken licence manager in working order. :-) Helge Hafting - 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/