From: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com>
To: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Response from M-Systems
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 22:57:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E112idz-0002jo-00@devel2.axiom.internal> (raw)
David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com said:
> Worst case: The GPL on the code gets retracted at some later date,
> after we're all using it.
I ought to have pointed out that this applies to _any_ GPL'd driver for the
Disk-On-Chip and NFTL, regardless of whether it's produced by M-Systems, with
M-Systems' specifications, or by reverse-engineering.
If we accept the premise that the patents prevent the code from being released
under GPL, then what are we playing at in the first place?
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-09 21:57 David Woodhouse [this message]
1999-07-09 22:44 ` Response from M-Systems Jason Gunthorpe
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1999-07-12 10:56 David Woodhouse
1999-07-12 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
1999-07-09 22:55 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 21:16 David Woodhouse
1999-07-11 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
1999-07-09 20:21 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 20:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
1999-07-09 18:50 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 20:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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