From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:43:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202240590.15090.119.camel@violet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <courier.47A8497B.0000472E@hawking.rebel.net.au>
Hi David,
> > I think you're missing my point: as long as the license stays the way
> > it is now, you can never distribute proprietary code unless you've
> > consulted a lawyer and even then you run the risk of being sued for
> > infringement if the copyright holder thinks what you have is derived
> > work.
>
> Yes I can, if the proprietary code is not linked with GPL code (and the
> proprietary code is original). Loadable modules are not linked. This is a
> very clear-cut case.
that is not clear-cut case. You link at run-time. Otherwise the module
would do nothing.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-05 19:43 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 [this message]
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
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
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