Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

David Newall
2008-02-08T16:34:50Z

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:25:33 +1030
> David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>>> It would not be improper to say that "such and such a lawyer said this
>>>> and that." I'm not proposing that you breach their copyright in their
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It would be highly improper given these were business discussions
>>> involving companies using Linux.
>>>
>> Then you should never have brought it up. Since you never really said
>> what any lawyer told you, let's just forget that you did bring it up.
>>
>
> I thought you would care that lawyers had discussed the matter.

I care, but I have no way of knowing what was advised. I bet you a
dollar they never said that all kernel modules are derivative. You
haven't said that they did, but the entire argument supporting, let me
call it "pro-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL", is based on the concept that they did.

> I hope it makes you very happy, welcome to
> my killfile.
Why would that bother me? You said it before, anyway. It was childish
then, and is childish now.