Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:28:49 -0800 | From | "Michael K. Edwards" <> | Subject | Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers |
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On 2/19/07, Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@gmail.com> wrote: > Hang on, you're actually debating that you have to abide by conditions > of a license before you can copy a copyright work? > > Please, tell us the names of these appellate court decisions so that > we can read them and weep.
Can we put the gamesmanship on "low" here for a moment? Ask yourself which is more likely: am I a crank who spends years researching the legal background of the GPL solely for the purpose of ranting incoherently on debian-legal and LKML, or am I a mid-career embedded software developer with an obsessive streak who has come to a realization how dangerous this whole EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL business is to his niche in the industry? Do I have an irrational hatred for people named Eben, or am I sick to the heart of seeing decent young kids' beliefs about the law perverted by a racketeer in attorney's clothing with (at an informed guess) somewhere between $300K and $2M a year in easy money from his web of "non-profit" shell companies? I may be _wrong_ -- but I'm not _witless_.
Now, if you want to play games, get yourself a copy of this new-fangled invention called a "web browser", and Google for each set of capitalized words with a "v." in between that has appeared in my posts to LKML in the last few days. For extra credit, follow links to older posts, cleverly signposted with "http://". Repeat ad nauseam. When you have an argument to offer that isn't already a blenderized equine, preferably associated with a citation to one of those shiny URL thingies with an "edu" or a "findlaw" in it, or even one of those phrases with the magic "v.", I'm all ears. Good morning -- and if I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
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