From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@freya.yggdrasil.com>
Cc: gilad@benyossef.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lm@bitmover.com, phillips@bonn-fries.net
Subject: Re: business models [was patent stuff]
Date: 28 May 2002 19:22:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1022610136.4124.131.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205281713.KAA22774@freya.yggdrasil.com>
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:13, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> You could license all programs that consist entirely of
> free software. That way, BSD, LGPL, and MPL software that did
> not link in proprietary software would be allowed too, but your
> example of a proprietary program that linked in the BSD'ed
> libpatent.o/c would not be covered by this permission.
Define "free software" using only legally defined phrases which have
precedent. In fact put four people in a room and get them to define free
software.
> software would address issues like GPL'ed software that contains
> content that is GPL compatible but not GPL'ed, future versions of
If its linked then it is GPL in the linked form, otherwise you wouldn't
be allowed to link it
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-28 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-28 17:13 Adam J. Richter
2002-05-28 17:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-28 18:22 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-05-28 17:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-05-29 21:44 ` David Weinehall
2002-05-30 4:51 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-29 19:13 Adam J. Richter
2002-05-29 3:21 Adam J. Richter
2002-05-29 13:15 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 14:13 ` Jonathan Corbet
2002-05-29 16:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-05-29 17:29 ` Nicholas Knight
2002-05-31 20:17 ` Perry The Cynic
2002-06-03 10:49 ` Rob Landley
[not found] <50.c105234.2a24c92d@aol.com>
2002-05-28 13:42 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2002-05-27 21:52 patent on O_ATOMICLOOKUP [Re: [PATCH] loopable tmpfs (2.4.17)] Adam J. Richter
2002-05-27 22:24 ` business models [was patent stuff] Larry McVoy
2002-05-27 23:15 ` Karim Yaghmour
2002-05-27 23:31 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-05-28 9:29 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-05-28 13:46 ` Mark Mielke
2002-05-29 8:34 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-05-28 7:53 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2002-05-28 8:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-05-28 11:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-28 10:32 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-05-28 12:28 ` Jonathan Corbet
2002-05-28 18:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
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