From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
Cc: brian wheeler <bdwheele@indiana.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:30:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e59041022173042f92fa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <417990AE.5050806@drdos.com>
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:58:54 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@drdos.com> wrote:
> Jon Masters wrote:
>
> >Jeff,
> >
> >Could you please digitally sign this mail that you are planning to
> >send or otherwise provide notorisation that confirms you definately
> >mean this?
> >
> >I'd love for you to accept liability for this so we can pass all SCO
> >enquiries on to you.
> >
> >Jon.
> Yes. I can do even better.
Ok. But I need you to sign this using some recognised signature -
other folks can suggest mechanisms we can use that are legally valid.
I'm happy to act as a gobetween if we could get you to undertake to
accept liability for any infringing code left in the kernel after any
proven SCO demands were to be met (I'm sure other folks can see where
I'm going with this discussion - let's see what the response is).
> I met with Darl McBride this afternoon
Did you have tea and crumpets? Jam?
> He gave me the first list, and I am waiting on the second
Like I said, if you could provide this to me with legally valid,
documented proof that you'll accept liability for further infringement
then that would help greatly with this thread.
> I don't think he likes Linux much
That surprises me. I thought Darl loved Linux more than life itself -
thanks for the correction.
> I will have it probably Monday. I'll post it then.
If you mail it to me at: jcm@jonmasters.org along with some contact
details then I can arrange to have you mail me a signed declaration
accepting liability.
> Darl seemed like a nice enough sort
I'd love to interview the guy, if he were interested.
> but he doesn't care much for Linux or IBM and he's pretty harsh on IBM.
IBM must be devastated. Seriously. I mean, they're what, the world's
fourth largest bank or something along those lines? Isn't that enough
money to buyout SCO a bazillion times over and still have some pocket
change left over?
> We argued for 30 minutes about SMP support in Linux and I think
> he will just let this one go since I pointed out that Novell had
> disclosed the Unixware SMP stuff at Brainshare and he
> cannot claim it as trade secrete any longer.
That's interesting. Can you commit to that too in your declaration please?
> He would not budge on RCU, NUMA, JFS, or XFS however, and he also said any IBM
> employee who contributed SMP code in his opinion may have misappropriated it
Did he check the dodo_lock_t stuff too?
> and he would claim any contribution from any IBM employee in Linux.
Were there any restrictions upon when that person was an employee?
> I will post to kernel.org the complete listing.
Thanks. I look forward to reading that.
Jon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-23 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 21:31 Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout brian wheeler
2004-10-22 21:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 23:03 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-22 22:58 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 23:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 13:30 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-24 11:10 ` Matthias Andree
2004-10-23 0:24 ` David Schwartz
2004-10-23 0:48 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 0:30 ` Jon Masters [this message]
2004-10-23 0:02 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 1:18 ` Diego Calleja
2004-10-23 8:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-23 16:13 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-10-23 12:59 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-24 11:04 ` Matthias Andree
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-24 19:38 Xose Vazquez Perez
2004-10-24 8:45 Shawn Starr
2004-10-22 19:38 Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-18 22:45 Linux v2.6.9 Linus Torvalds
2004-10-19 17:38 ` Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 19:13 ` Russell King
2004-10-19 19:04 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 19:24 ` Kurt Wall
2004-10-19 19:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-19 20:39 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-20 0:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 5:21 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-19 19:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2004-10-19 19:10 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 19:30 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-19 19:05 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:14 ` Diego Calleja
2004-10-19 19:41 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-20 8:27 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-20 8:45 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-19 19:47 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-19 19:38 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-19 20:15 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 23:22 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-19 19:45 ` Ross Biro
2004-10-19 19:36 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 19:54 ` David Johnson
2004-10-19 19:55 ` viro
2004-10-19 19:25 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:38 ` Dax Kelson
2004-10-19 20:09 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 22:16 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-19 22:57 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-19 22:27 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-10-20 19:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-20 1:15 ` Horst von Brand
2004-10-20 1:16 ` Bastiaan Spandaw
2004-10-20 19:35 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-20 3:45 ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-20 4:18 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 4:41 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 11:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 5:58 ` John Alvord
2004-10-20 14:42 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-21 23:59 ` Kelledin
2004-10-22 8:46 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-22 9:07 ` David Weinehall
2004-10-22 16:15 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 17:52 ` Al Viro
2004-10-22 17:22 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 19:37 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 20:46 ` Grahame White
2004-10-22 20:58 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-22 21:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-22 21:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-23 12:33 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-24 14:15 ` Kai Henningsen
2004-10-27 1:45 ` Horst von Brand
2004-10-24 11:00 ` Matthias Andree
2004-10-24 14:13 ` Kai Henningsen
2004-10-25 18:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-20 19:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-19 21:02 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-19 20:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 6:54 ` Erik Andersen
2004-10-22 16:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 21:17 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-20 20:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-23 13:43 ` James Bruce
2004-10-19 21:26 ` Ramón Rey Vicente
2004-10-19 22:52 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-20 23:43 ` Eric Bambach
2004-10-20 23:48 ` Eric Bambach
2004-10-20 23:59 ` Hua Zhong
2004-10-21 0:13 ` Russell Miller
2004-10-21 0:18 ` Adam Heath
2004-10-21 10:16 ` Horst von Brand
2004-10-22 8:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-22 16:15 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 0:14 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-22 23:46 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 0:57 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 4:42 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 6:32 ` Nick Piggin
[not found] ` <20041023064538.GA7866@galt.devicelogics.com>
2004-10-23 7:20 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 10:11 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-23 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24 2:48 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-24 5:11 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-24 11:14 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-24 11:50 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-24 15:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-24 15:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-31 23:14 ` Jan 'JaSan' Sarenik
2004-10-24 2:11 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-23 0:38 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-23 0:07 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 1:06 ` Lee Revell
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