From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262427AbTJGP6P (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:58:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262429AbTJGP6P (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:58:15 -0400 Received: from h80ad24d4.async.vt.edu ([128.173.36.212]:35200 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262427AbTJGP6L (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:58:11 -0400 Message-Id: <200310071448.h97EmXvl027514@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Larry McVoy Cc: David Woodhouse , Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:16:36 PDT." <20031007141636.GA910@work.bitmover.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20031006183857.GA3508@work.bitmover.com> <1065516037.22491.267.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20031007141636.GA910@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_994686379P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 10:48:33 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_994686379P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:16:36 PDT, Larry McVoy said: > No, that's the point you have been missing all along. Any unenforceable > clause is null and void. Read section 7 of the GPL and a little law. > You can't enforce unenforceable clauses by revoking the license. Actually, most fairly complicated contracts (more than just 2-3 clauses) have a separability clause because if you don't, then the whole contract DOES go poof if you have an unenforceable clause - so without one, the license goes away, revoking itself. And sure enough, section 7 has: If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances --==_Exmh_994686379P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/gtJBcC3lWbTT17ARAs7VAJwPYEKfO4Z4z3V41U6q7muGUEt4TgCg3U7Y Tkh3kJwR0JGJzvYY/zKNVdo= =Tn6g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_994686379P--