Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Oct 2002 07:53:00 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: New BK License Problem? |
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On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 03:46:29PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > this kind of sudden change in Larry's written opinion within 24 hours is > that makes this whole issue dangerous.
What change?
> this is why i'd rather want to have an iron-clad legal way out first, and > not have to rely on nonbinding promises done on public lists. I'm sure > Larry understands this position, he has exactly the same position when > trying to protect his business against hordes of freebies.
We spend a lot of time thinking about this from your point of view. There is a rule around here that we can't impose any rule that we wouldn't be willing to live with if the situations were reversed.
I'm composing a reply to the rest of the thread, stand by. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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/
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