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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:28:22 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon/hdaps: Fix bug 7154 inversion of separate axis
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:23:59PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:41:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > You're arguing that sysfs interfaces are copyrightable?
> 
> I'm not arguing anything. I'll let you, Shame Multithing and anyone
> else with too much spare time argue whatever you want. Me, I have many
> more useful things to do.

Adopting an interface that's already in use in the wild is a perfectly 
reasonable thing to do. The argument is over whether the tp_smapi driver 
itself has IP issues, not over whether its sysfs interface does.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org