From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reiser{3,4}: problem with the copyright statement
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:06:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041112170636.GA7689@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041112164745.GB7308@infradead.org>
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:47:45PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:59:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > I have no problem with dual-licensed code, but I do strongly dislike
> > > having this "unlike you explicitley state otherwise, you transfer all
> > > rights to Hans Reiser" in the kernel.
> >
> > I don't see any reasonable alternatives. The alternative is for Hans
> > Reiser to not be able to merge with the kernel, which is kind of against
> > the _point_ of having a dual license.
>
> If you touch e.g. XFS for a non-trivial change you'll also get a mail from
> SGI politely asking to assign your copyright. Doing this implicit is IMHO
> a really bad thing.
Btw, reiser3 handling was similar. At least Hans wanted an assigment from
me for even really trivial changes (which I still insist aren't copyrightable)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-12 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 9:23 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-11-11 10:09 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Magnus Damm
2004-11-11 10:11 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-11-11 10:24 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Magnus Damm
2004-11-11 10:45 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Brice Goglin
2004-11-11 11:00 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Stefano Rivoir
2004-11-11 11:13 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-11-11 11:04 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Markus Trippelsdorf
2004-11-11 11:08 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-11-11 21:55 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-11 22:14 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-11-12 9:27 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Jens Axboe
2004-11-11 22:41 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2004-11-12 10:50 ` [PATCH] Fix SHMEM options David Howells
2004-11-12 16:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-11 12:11 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5: yenta_socket issue Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-11 12:21 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-11 12:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-11-12 3:55 ` Rusty Russell
2004-11-11 16:50 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5: REISER4_LARGE_KEY is still selectable Adrian Bunk
2004-11-12 7:07 ` Vladimir Saveliev
2004-11-12 13:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-12 16:16 ` DaMouse
2004-11-12 16:37 ` Vladimir Saveliev
2004-11-12 17:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-11 17:25 ` Hans Reiser
2004-11-11 21:45 ` Reiser{3,4}: problem with the copyright statement Adrian Bunk
2004-11-11 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-12 16:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-12 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-11-12 17:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-12 17:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-12 19:33 ` Hans Reiser
2004-11-11 22:51 ` Stephen Pollei
2004-11-12 2:08 ` Zan Lynx
2004-11-11 23:28 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5: reiser4: print_clog in debug.c useless? Adrian Bunk
2004-11-12 2:39 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5: strange fs/reiser4/linux-5_reiser4_syscall.patch Adrian Bunk
2004-11-12 14:30 ` [patch] 2.6.10-rc1-mm5: some reiser4 cleanups Adrian Bunk
2004-11-12 19:00 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Alexander Nyberg
2004-11-13 0:11 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 Greg KH
2004-11-13 17:55 ` 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-13 21:16 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-13 21:22 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-13 22:19 ` Jedi/Sector One
2004-11-13 22:22 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-13 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-14 0:07 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-14 9:10 ` Jamie Lokier
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