Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:12:04 -0500 | From | "Dave Neuer" <> | Subject | Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers |
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On 2/16/07, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote: > > (See, among other cases, Lexmark. v. Static > Controls.) A copyright is not a patent, you can only own something if there > are multiple equally good ways to do it and you claim *one* of them.
Only in a world where "write a Linux module" is a "functional idea." I don't think that the legal world in the US is an example of such a world, though you clearly do.
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