Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:56:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux |
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Andre wrote: > > > Linux rejected the code because it does not understand nor does anyone > > have the desire to learn what it does. Since it is not in the kernel > > there is no GPL issue. Upon Microsoft's adpotion of the model they will > > That's B.S. The GPL is a Copyright license; it applies whether or not > it is in the kernel. Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter) can't > take your code and use it without consent. The GPL is one way of giving > consent, with certain strings attached.
But there is no Copyright license in patch code. And I choose not to Copyright patches.
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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