From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264183AbTDXURo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:17:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264344AbTDXURo (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:17:44 -0400 Received: from watch.techsource.com ([209.208.48.130]:12951 "EHLO techsource.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264183AbTDXURn (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:17:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA84D1E.8020308@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:46:22 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Jamie Lokier , Andreas Jellinghaus , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! References: <20030424083730.5F79A2127F@dungeon.inka.de> <20030424085913.GH28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3EA804A8.8070608@techsource.com> <1051209350.4004.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 16:37, Timothy Miller wrote: > > >>You are free to make a fork of the Linux tree for which DRM is NOT ok. >> >>Likewise, Linus is free to allow or disallow whatever he feels like in >>HIS tree. >> >> > >Actually no. > >Either its allowed by the GPL or its not. There are good reasons to >think that may ways of doing it are not (The GPL defines source >as including installation instructions). However thats a debate for >lawyers, and you can have the debate as long as you like but it doesn't >change what the GPL says.. > > > > > Certainly. But say the GPL allows it, and say Linus decides he wants it. There's nothing stopping someone else from forking it and deciding they'll never accept any DRM-related code into their fork. Now, here's something for the lawyers to try to do: determine that the GPL _requires_ DRM. :)