From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: mdpoole@troilus.org
Cc: Flavio Stanchina <flavio@stanchina.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:10:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040617211032.GA7247@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ju5yjxp.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org>
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:05:22PM -0400, mdpoole@troilus.org wrote:
> Sure there is: To the extent that there is a real license problem,
> work with the copyright owner(s) for the files and binary blobs to
> resolve the problem. If the copyright owner intentionally contributed
> them to Linux, they should be willing to resolve it by changing their
> license. Contrary to your (and SCO's) allegations, kernel gatekeepers
> generally exercise care with respect to new contributions.
>
> If you see a lit match in a movie theater, it is reasonable to ask the
> person to put it out *before* you shout "fire" and evacuate.
Greg has made it pretty clear that he intentionally accepted a GPL-
incomptible license. So I wouldn't trust your Gatekeeper too much, it
seems some don't of them don't understand the GPL at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-17 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-18 6:29 more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible Adam J. Richter
2004-06-17 15:44 ` Michael Poole
2004-06-17 17:09 ` Adam J. Richter
2004-06-17 19:14 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-17 20:51 ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-17 20:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-17 21:05 ` mdpoole
2004-06-17 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-17 21:45 ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-17 20:22 ` mdpoole
2004-06-17 18:05 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 19:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 20:22 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 20:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 20:52 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-18 6:56 Adam J. Richter
2004-06-18 11:09 ` mdpoole
2004-06-16 23:47 Wichmann, Mats D
2004-06-17 1:18 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-15 20:57 Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 0:38 ` Eric
2004-06-16 1:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-16 4:11 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-16 20:34 ` Erik Harrison
2004-06-16 20:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 21:21 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-16 22:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-16 23:45 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-17 14:09 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-17 18:35 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-17 19:22 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-17 7:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 8:43 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-17 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 10:09 ` Martin Diehl
2004-06-17 10:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-19 18:29 ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-17 14:04 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-16 22:49 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-18 9:08 ` Adrian Cox
2004-06-18 11:21 ` Kyle Moffett
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