From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:05:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020405200550.AAA24124@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16tZMk-0000Tf-00@the-village.bc.nu>
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 20:27:18 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox wrote:
>> The GPL permits you to modify and use GPL'd code however you wish
>>provided
>>you don't distribute it. The GPL permits you to modify, use, and distribute
>>GPL'd code however you like provided you make the source available.
>(subject to the other conditions it lays down)
>In the US I believe so. In the UK at least loading the code into memory has
>been ruled an act of copying by a court.
Doesn't matter. The GPL only requires you to offer the source to people you
offer the executables to. So if I copy it and distribute it to myself, I only
have to give the source to myself. Guess what, I already have it. So I'm not
sure why it matters whether I'm copying or not. (See, for example, clause 6
of the GPL)
Do you really think the GPL stands for digital rights management systems
embedded in all your programs that you may not tamper with under threat of
law? This doesn't sound like freedom to me. If you contribute to a GPLed
project, then you get grant precisely the rights the GPL says you grant and
you may impose no restrictions other than those the GPL imposes.
The GPL imposes no restrictions on modifications whatsoever. What could be
clearer?
DS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-05 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-20 13:13 [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules Stelian Pop
2002-02-20 16:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-02-20 16:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-04-03 16:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 17:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 18:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 19:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 20:05 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 20:27 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 21:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 21:26 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 21:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:03 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-03 19:19 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-03 21:05 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 6:43 ` Keith Owens
2002-04-04 10:22 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-04 10:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-04-04 11:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 12:01 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-04 12:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-04-04 12:48 ` Russell King
2002-04-04 12:40 ` Russell King
2002-04-04 12:46 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-05 7:29 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-05 8:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-04-05 8:28 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-04 13:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-04 15:21 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-05 9:25 ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-04-04 15:35 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-04 16:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-04 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-04 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-04 17:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-04-04 18:15 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-05 0:47 ` Linux kernel and binary drivers (was: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...) Steffen Persvold
2002-04-04 15:55 ` [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-04 16:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 16:15 ` Peter Horton
2002-04-04 16:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-04 16:38 ` Michael Clark
2002-04-04 20:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-04-04 16:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-04 17:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-04 18:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 16:42 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-03 19:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 19:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-03 19:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-03 20:35 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-04-03 22:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-03 22:24 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-03 22:33 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-04-03 22:35 ` David S. Miller
2002-04-06 9:08 ` David Woodhouse
2002-04-03 22:39 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-04 5:59 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-04-04 12:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 9:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-04-03 19:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-03 19:35 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 6:06 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-05 12:48 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 18:46 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-05 19:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 20:05 ` David Schwartz [this message]
2002-04-06 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 19:19 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-03 21:07 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-03 21:33 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-03 21:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-03 22:09 ` David Schwartz
2002-04-04 6:26 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-04-04 8:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-04-04 12:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-20 16:27 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-03 23:47 Petr Vandrovec
2002-04-04 0:19 ` Rik van Riel
2002-04-04 11:54 Petr Vandrovec
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0204041217290.18660-100000@imladris.surriel .com>
2002-04-04 16:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-04 16:29 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204041123410.6422-100000@devserv.devel.redh at.com>
2002-04-04 17:06 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-04 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-04 17:52 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-04 17:27 Nicholas Berry
2002-04-05 13:22 Gareth Hughes
2002-04-09 6:55 Rick A. Hohensee
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