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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Cc: lm@bitmover.com, aaronl@vitelus.com, acahalan@cs.uml.edu,
	dledford@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:38:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010525193856.B27975@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105260234.TAA15586@baldur.yggdrasil.com>
In-Reply-To: <200105260234.TAA15586@baldur.yggdrasil.com>; from adam@yggdrasil.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:34:57PM -0700

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:34:57PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> 	Contracts for slavery are specifically not enforceable due to
> the 13th Amendment, and there is also a stronger question of formation

Completely misses the point.  THe point isn't about slavery, come on, Adam,
it's about putting unenforceable things into contracts.

It's also about the concept of boundaries - if you think that that 
concept is not a legal one then why aren't all programs which are run
on top of a GPLed kernel then GPLed?
-- 
---
Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-26  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-26  2:34 Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26  2:38 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2001-05-26  4:52 ` Jeff V. Merkey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-29  1:38 Adam J. Richter
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
2001-05-25 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] <mailman.990765360.7016.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-05-25  6:02 ` Pete Zaitcev
     [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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