From: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:00:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4131EF80.4000400@winischhofer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093786086.27899.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
As much as I share your opinion, unfortunately, it's not that simple.
However, I will get back to that subject as soon as I have time.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-27 14:07 kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-27 20:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 3:03 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-28 6:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-28 14:46 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-28 17:13 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-29 13:28 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 15:00 ` Thomas Winischhofer [this message]
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2004-08-28 3:50 Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-27 16:46 David McBride
2004-08-27 16:26 Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-27 16:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 17:01 ` Greg KH
2004-08-27 17:34 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 18:09 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 18:35 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-27 20:47 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 21:18 ` Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-28 16:22 ` Brian Beattie
2004-08-27 18:08 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-29 13:25 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-26 14:31 city_hunter
2004-08-26 18:25 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <20040826190701.GA13310@kroah.com>
2004-08-26 23:35 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-26 23:40 ` Greg KH
2004-08-27 0:21 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <200408270917.47656.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-08-27 12:47 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 12:58 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 13:30 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 13:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-27 13:13 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-27 13:44 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 23:18 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-28 0:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-28 0:19 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-28 0:50 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 16:46 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 13:35 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 12:56 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <buok6vldx4l.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
2004-08-27 12:38 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <200408270845.38015.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-08-27 12:44 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 13:41 ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-27 13:58 ` Wouter Van Hemel
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2004-08-24 22:58 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-24 23:04 ` Greg KH
2004-08-25 14:02 ` Simon Oosthoek
2004-08-26 0:55 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-26 1:27 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-26 9:00 ` syrius.ml
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