Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Sun, 05 Oct 2003 21:03:17 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 12:21 -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > David, > > It is about the fact that Linus on his own set a position that modules are > permitted.
It is indeed. And about that fact that by the time he made that declaration, he was not in a position to make it unilaterally.
> Now if you want to take the position that one can not modify > and redistribute the modified kernel in source, you are imposing a > restriction.
A restriction in this case which I assert was present in the original licence; not an 'additional restriction'.
If I wanted to distribute my code without restrictions, I'd have contributed to a BSD kernel, or released my code under the terms "GPL but not if you really really don't fancy it".
I don't. I didn't.
> If I wanted to be rude, I could take the changes I made and copyright the > combined work and make it so others could not use that version without > permission.
Not without being in violation of the original licence. This isn't about the resulting combined work, but about your permission to use the _original_.
> Neither you or I can do anything, provide the vendor who is using Linux > publishes their source fork. I also dare you to stop them, because you > can't.
Believe me, there are ways this can be achieved.
-- dwmw2
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