From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:14:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:14:00 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:55825 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:13:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:17:16 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Alan Cox Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic Message-ID: <20010621151716.B5662@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Alan Cox , "Eric S. Raymond" , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200106211814.f5LIEgK04880@snark.thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:30:02PM +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox : > > >As copyright holder of the Linux kernel, Linus is the only person with > > >standing to sue for license violation. Therefore, when he says > > He's copyright holder of parts of it. The FSF is also a copyright holder of > oddments, as are many people. IANAL, but I believe that Linus's position as anthology copyright holder makes him privileged in this respect. My wife, who *is* an attorney, will be researching this. -- Eric S. Raymond If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying -- that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime. -- Senator Orrin Hatch, in a 1982 Senate Report