From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261657AbULTVmT (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:42:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261659AbULTVmT (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:42:19 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:14039 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261657AbULTVmK (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:42:10 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9 and the GPL Buyout From: "Timothy D. Witham" To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Linux Kernel ML , jmerkey@gadugi.org In-Reply-To: <20041220212723.GA8634@mail.gadugi.org> References: <20041220212723.GA8634@mail.gadugi.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Open Source Development Lab, Inc. Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:42:55 -0800 Message-Id: <1103578975.6142.45.camel@wookie-zd7> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:27 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > This is the final post on this particular thread. I said I would > reveal to LKML the purpose behind this original proposal when the time > was right. The GPL buyout offer has now expired and is formally closed, > now is the time to explian. > > The purpose behind the buyout was to convert as much Linux code over > as possible to another open source operating system project which > is sponsored at www.gadugi.org. This project is hosted by the Cherokee > Nation and is sovereign under US Federal Laws. This project is merging > the Linux Kernel with the Open Source NetWare project and distributing > the operating system. The site is operational and the full code repository > will be posted with the merged operating system after the Cherokee Nation > Public License is published in January. Anyone who > wishes to participate can email the site and get an account. > > Despite dubious reporting and wild conjecture, the buyout was not geared > towards helping SCO, or in concert with M$ as some sort of grand > conspiracy. It was geared towards creating a new licensing and legal > model for open source development. The Cherokee Nation is enacting > legislation to promote open source development. So the whole buyout > was me and a few folks attempting to convert Linux GPL code into > a licensing model and Cherokee Nation Copyrights that renders the > code sovereign and immune from litigation outside of tribal courts > and jurisdiction. So much for all the SCO and other legal wranglings > regarding this effort and open source in general. We are immune from > these people and so are any projects that use our licensing or host > on our servers. I personally told Darl "Mad Dog" McBride at SCO > good luck and to buzz off. > > We are adopting Federal Copyright and Trademark law, and Federal Patent > law into our courts. We are also enacting trade secret laws that make it > easier for folks to claim trade secrets on Open Source code for > individual authors. > So am I reading this right. You are talking code that people have written under various licenses and just putting your own license on it? Tim > Whether anyone here bites at this or not neither adds or detracts from > the opportunity and what we are doing. We have been around a long > time in North America; over 7,000 years from our own > recorded history, which is a lot longer than even IBM has been around. We > will be here 1000 years from now (and hopefully so will our website and > open source projects). > > Wa-Do > > Jeff V. Merkey > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Timothy D. Witham - Chief Technology Officer - wookie@osdl.org Open Source Development Lab Inc - A non-profit corporation 12725 SW Millikan Way - Suite 400 - Beaverton OR, 97005 (503)-906-1911 (office) (503)-702-2871 (cell) (503)-626-2436 (fax)