Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:00:16 +0200 | From | Thomas Winischhofer <> | Subject | Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches |
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Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 07:55, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >>Since you are a lawyer you know what "moral rights" are. And since you >>know what those are, I assume you did the same research about moral >>rights in the Netherlands (the country the PWC work was created) as I >>did and noticed that this issue isn't as black and white as you claim in >>your simplification I quoted above... > > > The GPL is very careful to explicitly grant rights in the text. There is > a reason for that. Pwc should stay in the kernel.
As much as I share your opinion, unfortunately, it's not that simple. However, I will get back to that subject as soon as I have time.
Thomas
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