From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263805AbTDXTWr (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:22:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263811AbTDXTWq (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:22:46 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:6276 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263805AbTDXTWg (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:22:36 -0400 Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! From: Alan Cox To: Timothy Miller Cc: Jamie Lokier , Andreas Jellinghaus , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3EA804A8.8070608@techsource.com> References: <20030424083730.5F79A2127F@dungeon.inka.de> <20030424085913.GH28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3EA804A8.8070608@techsource.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1051209350.4004.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 24 Apr 2003 19:35:51 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 16:37, Timothy Miller wrote: > You are free to make a fork of the Linux tree for which DRM is NOT ok. > > Likewise, Linus is free to allow or disallow whatever he feels like in > HIS tree. Actually no. Either its allowed by the GPL or its not. There are good reasons to think that may ways of doing it are not (The GPL defines source as including installation instructions). However thats a debate for lawyers, and you can have the debate as long as you like but it doesn't change what the GPL says.. Alan