From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: akuster@mvista.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: GPL inconsistency in arch/ppc/ocp/xlinx/
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:39:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030615173915.GA4511@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030612204444.GA19453@work.bitmover.com>
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:44:44PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> You might want to be careful about advertising why you want these files
> removed because the Xilinx clause is just covering their butt. If someone
> uses Linux in some life support system and someone dies, the fact that
> the community removed these files because of that clause could be construed
> as a statement that Linux was suitable for life support systems. It gives
> the lawyers ammo.
The issue is not what you, I or Xilinx think is a good idea to do with
the code, the issue is that the GPL doesn't allow to further restrict
the rights it gives.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-15 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-24 20:12 GPL inconsistency in arch/ppc/ocp/xlinx/ Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-25 12:01 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-12 20:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-12 20:44 ` Larry McVoy
2003-06-13 7:58 ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-06-15 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-06-12 20:45 ` Matt Porter
2003-06-15 17:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-16 0:07 ` Tom Rini
2003-06-12 20:55 ` Tom Rini
2003-06-15 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-06-16 0:04 ` Tom Rini
2003-06-17 4:50 ` Peter Ryser
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