Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]

Andre Hedrick
2003-09-14T02:58:53Z

Please Erik,

Go have your "DADDY" write another legal letter for you and send it my
way. I will be happy to shove it down your pie hole.

There is a difference in blanket theift of the kernel API and any court
will point out that "fair usage" is proper.

PS how is your IRS media forensics gig going now that you do not have me
on your side to help you do the dirty work of sneaking around people's
hard drives. I was smart enough to never teach you what I knew you could
never learn.

Later!

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 04:58:03PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
> >
> >
> > David Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > > However, some people seem to be arguing that the GPL_ONLY symbols
> > > are in
> > >fact a license enforcement technique. If that's true, then when they
> > >distribute their code, they are putting additional restrictions not in the
> > >GPL on it. That is a GPL violation.
> >
> > Agreed. GPL_ONLY is not a license restriction. It is a technical issue.
>
> I'll go even farther, and say that one might call the GPL_ONLY
> symbols an "effective technological measure" that "effectively
> controls access to a work" and "effectively protects a right of a
> copyright owner ... in the ordinary course of its operation....".
> Bypassing GPL_ONLY symbols, as recently advocated by David
> Schwartz and Andre Hedrick, could be considered circumvention of
> an effective technological measure. Remember Dmitry Sklyarov,
>
> -Erik
>
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