From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267968AbUH2OjF (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:39:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267976AbUH2OiH (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:38:07 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:59520 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267968AbUH2OaT (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:30:19 -0400 Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches From: Alan Cox To: arjanv@redhat.com Cc: Thomas Winischhofer , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1093676112.2792.6.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> References: <412F4008.4050700@winischhofer.net> <20040827130151.46c246b0.davem@redhat.com> <412FF60B.5080009@winischhofer.net> <1093676112.2792.6.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1093786086.27899.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:28:08 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 07:55, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Since you are a lawyer you know what "moral rights" are. And since you > know what those are, I assume you did the same research about moral > rights in the Netherlands (the country the PWC work was created) as I > did and noticed that this issue isn't as black and white as you claim in > your simplification I quoted above... The GPL is very careful to explicitly grant rights in the text. There is a reason for that. Pwc should stay in the kernel.