From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263330AbTJES15 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:27:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263336AbTJES15 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:27:57 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:22931 "EHLO imladris.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263330AbTJES14 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:27:56 -0400 From: David Woodhouse To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Rob Landley , "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Message-Id: <1065378470.3157.146.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 19:27:50 +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 Sat, 2003-10-04 at 23:40 -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > You are so young and fresh to the game, it is cute. > > http://www.gcom.com/home/support/whitepapers/linux-gnu-license.html That's quite amusingly erroneous. The idea that you could use the Linux kernel having stripped out all code belonging to Alan so that his opinion is not relevant is one that I find frankly hilarious. This is not about your work just being a derived work of Alan's under copyright law. This is about you not complying to the licence under which Alan's code is released and hence it is _his_ code, including I believe a significant part of the networking code, which is an 'infringing copy of a copyright work' in law; since you use it without licence. -- dwmw2