From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263251AbTJKGfd (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:35:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263254AbTJKGfd (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:35:33 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:58343 "EHLO imladris.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263251AbTJKGf1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:35:27 -0400 From: David Woodhouse To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Florian Schirmer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Turner , andrew@mikl.as, rob@nocat.net In-Reply-To: References: Message-Id: <1065854106.30987.394.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-2.dwmw2.3) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 07:35:07 +0100 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: Linksys/Cisco GPL Violations 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 Fri, 2003-10-10 at 22:37 -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > David, > > If you still have not paid and gotten legal advise on the position, you > are still talking out of your ARSE. Clearly you have horses and wishes > confused on what GPL is and is not. > If there is not boundary for modules then SCO will eat Linux alive in > court. You can't have it both ways. Andre, while I thank you for your well-written and coherent statement in opposition to my own position, I'm sure you'll agree that it doesn't matter what orifice I use if I stick to merely quoting... These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections WHEN YOU DISTRIBUTE THEM AS SEPARATE WORKS. BUT WHEN YOU DISTRIBUTE THE SAME SECTIONS AS PART OF A WHOLE WHICH IS A WORK BASED ON THE PROGRAM, THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE WHOLE MUST BE ON THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. Thus, it is not the intent of this section to claim rights or contest your rights to work written entirely by you; rather, the intent is to exercise the right to control the distribution of derivative OR COLLECTIVE works based on the Program. -- dwmw2