From: "Scott Preece" <sepreece@gmail.com>
To: davids@webmaster.com
Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPL only modules
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:55:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b69d1470612190855t1df801as35852be1e25bd3c6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKCEENAHAC.davids@webmaster.com>
On 12/18/06, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
>
>
> > First sale has nothing to do with this. First sale applies to the
> > redistribution or resale of copies you have purchased, not with the
> > right to make additional copies.
>
> First sale is exactly what this is about. Nobody needs to make "additional
> copies" of the Linux kernel because I can download a thousand of them from a
> computer operated by the guy in the office down the hall from me.
---
This is an interesting argument that was new to me. However, it is not
clear at all that First Sale applies to intangible copies. And it's
not clear that there is a sale involved, legally. Again, IANAL, but I
think this is seriously untested ground.
scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-19 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-16 18:27 GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Ricardo Galli
2006-12-16 21:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-17 0:22 ` Ricardo Galli
2006-12-17 4:10 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-17 13:54 ` GPL only modules Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-17 15:56 ` Ricardo Galli
2006-12-17 16:25 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-17 21:32 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-17 21:46 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-18 15:47 ` Dave Neuer
2006-12-18 17:46 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-18 21:01 ` Dave Neuer
2006-12-18 17:16 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 6:35 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-19 16:39 ` David Lang
2006-12-18 19:41 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 22:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-19 3:42 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-20 1:02 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-20 23:28 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-17 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-17 22:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-18 6:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-18 23:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-18 15:38 ` Dave Neuer
2006-12-18 17:02 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-18 17:23 ` Dave Neuer
2006-12-18 19:27 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-18 20:37 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 20:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-18 21:23 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-18 22:35 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-19 1:29 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 16:55 ` Scott Preece [this message]
2006-12-20 0:09 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-20 0:06 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 22:06 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-12-18 23:28 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-19 1:35 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 2:38 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-19 12:42 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-20 0:20 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 23:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-18 23:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-19 0:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-19 1:39 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 4:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-12-20 19:14 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-20 23:08 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-20 23:26 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 7:39 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-12-19 7:40 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-12-19 8:00 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-12-19 13:09 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-19 17:27 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-12-20 1:06 ` Alexandre Oliva
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-14 0:32 GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Greg KH
2006-12-14 0:43 ` Jonathan Corbet
2006-12-14 0:55 ` Greg KH
2006-12-14 4:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-14 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-14 17:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-12-14 17:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-14 17:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-12-14 18:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-18 10:28 ` GPL only modules Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-14 18:15 ` GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Eric Sandeen
2006-12-14 18:39 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-12-14 19:42 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-14 19:34 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-12-15 5:28 ` GPL only modules Alexandre Oliva
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