From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: When we detect that a 16550 was in fact part of a NatSemi SuperIO chip
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 20:14:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116785646.6285.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505220953300.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 09:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 22 May 2005, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >
> > Linus, please do not apply patches from me which have my personal
> > information mangled or removed.
>
> I've asked Russell not to do it, but the fact is, he's worried about legal
> issues, and while I've also tried to resolve those (by having the OSDL
> lawyer try to contact some lawyers in the UK), that hasn't been clarified
> yet.
there is a potential nasty interaction with the UK moral rights thing
where an author can demand that his authorship claim remains intact...
so if David objects to his authorship being mangled (and partially
removed) he may have a strong legal position to do so.
Arjan ... who is wondering if the UK DPA law is in conflict with UK
copyright law and is glad to not be in the UK anymore
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-22 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200505220008.j4M08uE9025378@hera.kernel.org>
2005-05-22 11:57 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-22 12:59 ` Russell King
2005-05-22 13:23 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-22 13:41 ` Russell King
2005-05-22 14:14 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-22 21:16 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-22 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-22 22:22 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-22 22:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-22 22:43 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-23 4:09 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-23 5:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-05-23 7:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-23 14:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-22 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-22 17:15 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-22 18:14 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-05-22 18:44 ` Russell King
2005-05-22 18:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-22 19:03 ` Russell King
2005-05-22 20:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-22 20:55 ` Brian O'Mahoney
2005-05-22 19:58 ` Brian O'Mahoney
2005-05-22 20:31 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-22 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
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