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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Nikulin <nikulinpi@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Documentation: Add a file explaining the requested Linux kernel license enforcement policy
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 10:03:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171021080340.GB21399@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171020192519.78772151@alans-desktop>

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 07:25:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:28:12 +0300
> Pavel Nikulin <nikulinpi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hold!
> > 
> > Greg, are you trying to put a new addendum to the terms of GPL v2?
> 
> In many parts of the world if you make a promise about not enforcing a
> right to take some action (sometimes even an implied one) you cannot then
> take that action.
> 
> So if you say "I won't sue you just because you've got a tiny GPL
> compliance issue", then in much of the world if you attempt to do so
> you'll find you can't.
> 
> I do think it's poorly drafted because it doesn't contain any "unless you
> sue us" caveat so you won't find my name on it.

But it does have that caveat:
	...with respect to any non-defensive assertion...

I discussed that in my FAQ blog post as well.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-21  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-19 15:28 Pavel Nikulin
2017-10-20  7:29 ` Greg KH
2017-10-20 18:25 ` Alan Cox
2017-10-21  8:03   ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-10-21 19:16   ` Pavel Nikulin
2017-10-22  2:28     ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2017-10-23  7:50     ` Greg KH
2017-10-23 13:11       ` Pavel Nikulin
2017-10-23 14:35         ` Theodore Ts'o
2017-10-23 17:47           ` Damian Tometzki
2017-10-23 18:26           ` Damian Tometzki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-16  9:25 Greg KH
2017-10-16 13:11 ` David Woodhouse
2017-10-16 13:46   ` Greg KH
2017-10-16 14:31     ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2017-10-16 14:50     ` David Woodhouse
2017-10-17 14:57       ` Greg KH
2017-12-10  8:21       ` Pavel Machek
2017-10-17  8:06     ` Greg KH

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