From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Patrick McFarland <diablod3@gmail.com>,
Anonymous User <anonymouslinuxuser@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL Violation?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:05:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060820220538.GA10011@opteron.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155807431.22871.157.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:37:11AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> But _even_ if GregKH, Arjan and all of IBM's lawyers are wrong and we
I agree about the rest and I'm certainly not trying to make life easy
to the binary only drivers, but for completeness I'd like to add that
IBM at some point released binary only drivers for some virtual device
on s390. I think they're all GPL by now, but my point remains that
even IBM must have thought they could legally ship binary only drivers
in the past (like everybody else did until recently after all).
My only worry is what's the legal status of the vsyscall if the only
thing that matters is the COPYING file and not its generally agreed
interpretation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-20 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-17 5:48 GPL Violation? Anonymous User
2006-08-17 6:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 9:38 ` Ben B
2006-08-17 12:02 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-17 16:11 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 19:21 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-08-17 23:26 ` Ian Stirling
[not found] ` <20060817193540.dc819396.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-08-17 23:35 ` Sean
2006-08-18 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 7:23 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-18 12:23 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 9:04 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-17 6:42 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 6:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 7:32 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 8:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-17 9:03 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-18 17:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-17 12:39 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-17 13:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 13:31 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-17 15:52 ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-18 2:03 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-17 8:32 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 9:36 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 11:25 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 11:48 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-17 9:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-17 23:45 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 8:28 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-18 12:52 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 8:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-18 9:04 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-18 9:15 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-20 22:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2006-08-20 22:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 9:51 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-18 16:52 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 22:42 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-19 10:48 ` David Greaves
2006-08-19 16:29 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-19 17:28 ` David Greaves
2006-08-19 11:30 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-19 15:44 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-19 23:01 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-20 3:20 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-21 7:58 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-21 11:27 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-21 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-21 14:59 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-08-17 9:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 9:29 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 14:52 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-17 14:58 ` Anonymous User
2006-08-17 15:52 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 16:19 ` Michiel de Boer
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