From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263114AbTJEOP3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:15:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263115AbTJEOP3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:15:29 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:56719 "EHLO imladris.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263114AbTJEOP1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:15:27 -0400 From: David Woodhouse To: Larry McVoy Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Rob Landley , andersen@codepoet.org, "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , Andre Hedrick , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20031005135603.GA10245@work.bitmover.com> References: <20030914064144.GA20689@codepoet.org> <20030915055721.GA6556@codepoet.org> <200310041952.09186.rob@landley.net> <20031005010521.GA21138@work.bitmover.com> <20031005023428.GI7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20031005034533.GA29679@work.bitmover.com> <1065349476.3157.10.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <20031005135603.GA10245@work.bitmover.com> Message-Id: <1065363293.3157.61.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-2.dwmw2.3) Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 15:14:53 +0100 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 3.0+cvs (built Mon Aug 18 15:53:30 BST 2003) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 06:56 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > You're forgetting that what the GPL says doesn't matter if it is > unenforceable. If the licence is invalid then there exists no licence and it is an offence to use the software in question at _all_. > Remember all the people yelling at me that they can > reverse engineer BK in spite of any no-reverse-engineering clauses? > That same logic applies to the GPL, you can't have it both ways. I wasn't doing that yelling. > It doesn't matter what you think, or I think, or Linus thinks. What > matters is what is legal and what isn't. Agreed. -- dwmw2