From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "David Newall" <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>,
"Christer Weinigel" <christer@weinigel.se>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 18:48:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020802030848v160253feoa24c5ecefc7c91f5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A5E67D.9040804@davidnewall.com>
Hi David,
On Feb 3, 2008 6:06 PM, David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> wrote:
> > But what I don't understand is why people insist using the Linux kernel
> > for something it clearly can never really properly support (proprietary
> > code)?
>
> That's defeatist. Of course the Linux kernel can properly support
> ("run") proprietary code. It would be a miserable excuse for an
> operating system if it couldn't.
I think you're missing my point: as long as the license stays the way
it is now, you can never distribute proprietary code unless you've
consulted a lawyer and even then you run the risk of being sued for
infringement if the copyright holder thinks what you have is derived
work. The GPLv2 and thus Linux was never designed to allow proprietary
code and arguing that is pointless, isn't it? There are much better
alternatives available and people interested in proprietary code
should be looking there.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-03 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 157+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 18:02 Greg KH
2008-01-28 8:13 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-01-28 8:57 ` Greg KH
2008-01-28 9:58 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-01-28 16:13 ` Greg KH
2008-01-28 10:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-28 16:13 ` Greg KH
2008-01-28 16:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-28 16:52 ` Greg KH
2008-01-28 21:49 ` TimC
2008-02-02 11:37 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-02 19:19 ` Greg KH
2008-02-03 11:48 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-03 14:35 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-03 17:04 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-03 23:15 ` Greg KH
2008-02-05 23:14 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 23:17 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 12:50 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:06 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 14:32 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 23:29 ` Greg KH
2008-02-07 12:52 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 23:34 ` Chris Friesen
2008-02-06 21:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-07 1:36 ` David Schwartz
2008-02-07 13:26 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 15:02 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 15:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 16:31 ` David Newall
2008-02-08 0:18 ` David Schwartz
2008-02-07 13:06 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 14:55 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 15:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 16:19 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 22:51 ` Hannu Savolainen
2008-02-07 23:17 ` Greg KH
2008-02-03 15:07 ` David Newall
2008-02-04 10:21 ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-04 19:18 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-04 21:38 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-06 20:34 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-06 20:54 ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2008-02-07 13:19 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:06 ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2008-02-07 14:31 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 16:13 ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2008-02-07 16:22 ` Dave Higton
2008-02-07 16:50 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 17:49 ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2008-02-08 2:50 ` David Newall
2008-02-09 15:13 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-09 15:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-09 16:50 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-09 17:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-06 20:55 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-06 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 13:47 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:26 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 15:16 ` David Newall
2008-02-06 21:29 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-07 8:07 ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07 15:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-07 19:27 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-07 13:21 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 19:35 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-07 13:16 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 7:49 ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-05 23:25 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 13:00 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 14:48 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 16:03 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 18:22 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-08 2:55 ` David Newall
2008-02-08 11:29 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-08 16:34 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 8:31 ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07 13:35 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:25 ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07 15:13 ` David Newall
2008-02-08 8:48 ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07 19:34 ` Lee Mathers
2008-02-08 8:55 ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-08 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-05 9:55 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-02-05 11:18 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 12:32 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-02-10 15:19 ` Bauke Jan Douma
2008-02-03 15:12 ` David Newall
2008-02-03 15:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-03 16:06 ` David Newall
2008-02-03 16:48 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-02-05 11:33 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 19:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-07 13:41 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 19:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-08 3:57 ` David Newall
2008-02-08 9:15 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-08 18:40 ` David Newall
2008-02-08 19:08 ` David Newall
2008-02-08 19:23 ` David Newall
2008-02-08 19:36 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-08 21:36 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-08 23:27 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-08 19:13 ` Greg KH
2008-02-08 19:42 ` David Newall
2008-02-08 23:41 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-10 2:01 ` David Schwartz
2008-02-10 4:50 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-10 5:07 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-10 5:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-10 6:18 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-10 11:20 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-10 13:30 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-10 13:45 ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-12 18:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-12 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-09 13:40 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-08 20:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-08 23:30 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-03 17:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-05 11:39 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 11:46 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-06 21:12 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-06 21:48 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-07 6:22 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-07 13:31 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 13:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-05 12:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-05 20:03 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-05 20:35 ` Chris Friesen
2008-02-05 21:12 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-07 12:41 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 13:37 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 13:45 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:28 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 15:39 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 20:34 ` Greg KH
2008-02-06 20:14 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-06 20:28 ` Greg KH
2008-02-06 21:03 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-07 13:15 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 13:39 ` David Newall
2008-02-06 20:43 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-06 21:23 ` Greg KH
2008-02-01 14:45 Gilles Espinasse
2008-02-01 17:29 ` Greg KH
2008-02-06 21:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-07 7:30 ` Gilles Espinasse
2008-02-03 11:17 Gilles Espinasse
2008-02-04 11:43 Matthew
2008-02-04 15:04 ` Greg KH
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