From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@mail.gadugi.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@gadugi.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9 and the GPL Buyout
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:04:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103655872.6111.118.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041220212723.GA8634@mail.gadugi.org>
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 15:27 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> We are adopting Federal Copyright and Trademark law, and Federal Patent
> law into our courts. We are also enacting trade secret laws that make it
> easier for folks to claim trade secrets on Open Source code for
> individual authors.
Why? You're not a signatory to the Berne Convention and thus surely you
don't need to honour it? You can just re-use the GPL'd code without our
permission, and make your law permit it. You could adopt US copyright
law with exceptions for the Linux kernel. There's precedent for such
exceptions -- see what the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
has to say about Peter Pan, for example:
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_28.htm#sdiv6
And enacting the US patent law is absurd -- why would you want to copy
something as broken and abusable as that?
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-21 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-20 21:27 Linux 2.6.9 and the GPL Buyout Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-20 21:42 ` Timothy D. Witham
2004-12-20 21:47 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-21 9:25 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-12-21 16:11 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-21 18:05 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-12-20 22:26 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-20 22:18 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-20 23:03 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-12-20 22:57 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-21 2:40 ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-21 16:26 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-21 19:31 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-21 9:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-12-21 16:14 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-21 12:34 ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-21 16:19 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-21 16:51 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2004-12-21 17:19 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-12-21 19:04 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-12-21 21:11 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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