From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262379AbTJGOQw (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:16:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262395AbTJGOQv (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:16:51 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:60863 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262379AbTJGOQu (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:16:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 07:16:36 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: David Woodhouse Cc: Larry McVoy , Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] Message-ID: <20031007141636.GA910@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , David Woodhouse , Larry McVoy , Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031006183857.GA3508@work.bitmover.com> <1065516037.22491.267.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1065516037.22491.267.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.3, required 7, AWL) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:40:37AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > This is not about whether a licence _can_ demand this. We know it can -- > it can demand the ritual sacrifice of your first-born, and all that > means is that if you don't agree, you don't get to use the software in > question??. No, that's the point you have been missing all along. Any unenforceable clause is null and void. Read section 7 of the GPL and a little law. You can't enforce unenforceable clauses by revoking the license. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm