Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:12:07 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing |
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On Mon 2007-09-03 04:58:58, Jeff Garzik wrote: > David Schwartz wrote: > >Either license can grant you the right to distribute > >it, but how you get the > >rights to distribute has *NO* effect on the recipient. > >They receive a lawful > >copy and any rights the original author grants them > >under a license from > >that original author. You have no power to grant or > >modify rights to the > >original work. > > Secondary parties have the power to grant or modify > rights, if delegated to them by the original author. > > Relicensing and transfer of rights happens all the time. > How do you think most music gets into consumer hands?
License is only a promise not to sue. Only original author is permitted to sue in BSD/GPL case. David seems right here.
If Linus releases GPL/BSD program, you choose GPL and distribute it to me, and I put it into proprietary evil app, I am _ok_.
You can't sue me, because you are not copyright holder.
Linus can't sue me, because he BSD licensed it.
=> I'm fine. Yep, copyright law is strange, and you may be right outside U.S. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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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