From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:45:03 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AB0457.6040108@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080206202810.GA16257@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:14:48PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:34:18 -0800
>> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> In the end, it's up to the copyright holders to enforce the license.
>>> And as I have stated in the past, a number of them have made public
>>> statements as to what they think about this issue. And it corresponds
>>> exactly with what Marcel has stated above.
>>>
>>> So if you wish to violate the copyright of others, you take the risk
>>> that you might be caught and punished, something that you and your
>>> legal council needs to take into account.
>>>
>> So when do you sue Nvidia, ATI, Atheros, Broadcom[1],
>> M-Systems/Sandisk[2] or Nokia? All those companies distribute binary
>> drivers for Linux without providing source code?
>>
>
> How do you know that such legal action isn't already happening?
Is it? Or are you falsely implying that it is? I hope it is; that will
help add fact to an otherwise opinion-ridden topic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 157+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 18:02 [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only 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
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 [this message]
2008-02-07 13:39 ` David Newall
2008-02-06 20:43 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-06 21:23 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=47AB0457.6040108@davidnewall.com \
--to=davidn@davidnewall.com \
--cc=christer@weinigel.se \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-usb@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=marcel@holtmann.org \
--cc=penberg@cs.helsinki.fi \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.