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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	Patrick McFarland <diablod3@gmail.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Anonymous User <anonymouslinuxuser@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL Violation?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:41:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1155822112.15195.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608171410570.14828@alpha.polcom.net>

Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 14:39 +0200, ysgrifennodd Grzegorz Kulewski:
> Why does Linus and others let lawyers and courts decide in such 
> (important?) thing like what is allowed in Linux (or with Linux) and what 
> is not?

Because licenses are bounded and defined by the law. In the case of
copyright based rights they extend only to the thing that is copyrighted
and any derivatives so the grey area is not one the GPL could clarify
further.

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-17 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-17  5:48 GPL Violation? Anonymous User
2006-08-17  6:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17  9:38   ` Ben B
2006-08-17 12:02     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-17 16:11       ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 19:21   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-08-17 23:26     ` Ian Stirling
     [not found]       ` <20060817193540.dc819396.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-08-17 23:35         ` Sean
2006-08-18  0:32       ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18  7:23       ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-18 12:23         ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18  9:04       ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-17  6:42 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17  6:54   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17  7:32     ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17  8:02       ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-17  9:03         ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-18 17:56           ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-17 12:39         ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-17 13:41           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-08-17 13:31             ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-17 15:52               ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-18  2:03             ` Chase Venters
2006-08-17  8:32   ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17  9:36     ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 11:25       ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 11:48         ` Neil Brown
2006-08-17  9:37   ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-17 23:45     ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18  8:28       ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-18 12:52         ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18  8:53       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-18  9:04         ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-18  9:15           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-20 22:05     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-08-20 22:20       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18  9:51   ` David Schwartz
2006-08-18 16:52     ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 22:42       ` David Schwartz
2006-08-19 10:48         ` David Greaves
2006-08-19 16:29           ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-19 17:28             ` David Greaves
2006-08-19 11:30         ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-19 15:44           ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-19 23:01           ` David Schwartz
2006-08-20  3:20           ` Chase Venters
2006-08-21  7:58             ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-21 11:27               ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-21 13:06               ` Alan Cox
2006-08-21 14:59               ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-08-17  9:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17  9:29   ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 14:52 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-17 14:58 ` Anonymous User
2006-08-17 15:52   ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 16:19   ` Michiel de Boer

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