From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 02:02:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200105250602.f4P62VV01415@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.990765360.7016.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <mailman.990765360.7016.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
> From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:53:48 -0700
> To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h
>[...]
> I believe this infringinges the copyrights of the authors
> of the code used in these drivers who released their code under GPL.
> Alan Cox, has gone on a campaign claiming that this is "mere aggregation"
> and insists that I bring in the lawyers to prove him otherwise. I
> really do not want to take this step, but he is forcing my hand. Note
> that Yggdrasil is a copyright owner in this case.
Translation: Adam was soundly beaten on linux-usb-devel and is sore.
> To simplify removal of the offending code, I have provided
> a separate user level facility that can use the USB "hot plugging"
> system to automatically load that "firmware" or any other. [...]
A good thing for many reasons, if it works. Personally, I do not
care why Adam writes right code as long as he does. :)
-- Pete
next parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-25 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2001-05-25 6:02 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2001-05-29 1:38 Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h Adam J. Richter
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2001-05-26 11:09 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26 3:10 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26 11:00 ` James Sutherland
2001-05-29 0:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-29 0:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-29 0:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-26 2:34 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26 2:38 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-26 4:52 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-05-25 17:02 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 17:23 ` Jacob Luna Lundberg
2001-05-25 18:30 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-25 22:30 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-26 1:43 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-25 19:14 ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-25 10:36 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 9:34 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 16:06 ` Doug Ledford
[not found] <200105250559.f4P5x80365151@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
2001-05-25 6:03 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 6:42 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 7:02 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-05-25 7:05 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 10:56 ` Erik Mouw
2001-05-25 11:56 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 12:44 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105242155540.4849-100000@beppo.feral.com>
2001-05-25 5:57 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:26 ` Matthew Jacob
2001-05-25 6:31 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 4:34 Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 5:07 ` Greg KH
2001-05-25 10:00 ` John Cavan
2001-05-25 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-25 16:17 ` Alan Cox
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