Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:45:40 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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> I haven't looked into what Harald Welte did, but I'd be surprised if someone > tried following suit in America and had as much success.
One of the distinct advantages of German law over the US system (and to a large extent the UK system its based upon) is that German law favours justice over money.
> > AFAIK there haven't been any court rulings on this issue, and it could > > even be that courts in different countries will decide differently. > > Agreed.
That in theory shouldn't happen as the conventions on copyright are supposed to stop that mess occuring. - 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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