Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:08:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd |
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Alan,
The simple flaw is present and pointed out in my inital statement.
GPL provides no means to enable the author/copyright holder to defend and recover legal fees occurred during discovery and litigation.
What I find odd in you politics which stinks, is you and redhat are pumping OSL into new features which are not generally submitted to the standard base. I do not care, but it does look funny.
Interesting points how the issues of holding the kernel to GPLv2 may actually be a restriction to invalidate the actually license. This tends to make it possible for more arguements against the author when pursuing violations.
Just a nickel to stir the pot.
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
On 23 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 13:32, Martin Diehl wrote: > > If the copyright holder puts a note on his code saying it is released > > under version 2 of the GPL then clearly neither the "or any later" nor the > > "not specified" cases apply. And I really fail to see how one could > > argue this were an additional restriction compared to GPL v2 literally! > > If the copyright holder is not permitted to make such a restriction and > use the existing code then yes. > > > Btw, you aren't saying linux-kernel would *not* come with a valid GPL, > > according to linux/COPYING, are you? > > The kernel is under GPL. I'm not sure what Linus scribblings make change > if anything. I understand why Linus did it "I dont want the FSF doing > something silly" and also why the FSF did it "so we can fix the license". > > Ultimately it makes little difference, Linus is perfectly entitled to > refuse to add anything that doesn't allow GPLv2 use to his kernel tree. > > GPLv2 only effectively means your code becomes non-free if a flaw is > found in that GPL revision, and nobody can fix it for 70 years so its > an awkward trade off > > I suspect this is getting offtopic 8) >
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