From: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:07:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <412F4008.4050700@winischhofer.net> (raw)
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
>
>>Intersting, that in the legal case, people are having a bad feeling,
>>but
>>in illegal case of doing reverse-engineering, drivers make it into the
>>kernel...
>
>
>It's not a matter of legal/illegal, like Linus pointed out; it's a
>matter of respecting Nemosoft's work and not stabbing him in the back.
OK and if the authors of, say, SMP support say "back it out", Linux ends
up without SMP support. Cool.
GPL is GPL. Period.
I think it's enough courtesy to say "Thank you".
--
Thomas Winischhofer
Vienna/Austria
thomas AT winischhofer DOT net *** http://www.winischhofer.net
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-27 14:07 Thomas Winischhofer [this message]
2004-08-27 20:01 ` kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches David S. Miller
2004-08-28 3:03 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-28 6:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-28 14:46 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-28 17:13 ` Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-29 13:28 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-29 15:00 ` Thomas Winischhofer
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2004-08-28 3:50 Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-27 16:46 David McBride
2004-08-27 16:26 Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-27 16:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 17:01 ` Greg KH
2004-08-27 17:34 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 18:09 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 18:35 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-08-27 20:47 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-27 21:18 ` Kenneth Lavrsen
2004-08-28 16:22 ` Brian Beattie
2004-08-27 18:08 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-29 13:25 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-26 14:31 city_hunter
2004-08-26 18:25 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <20040826190701.GA13310@kroah.com>
2004-08-26 23:35 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-26 23:40 ` Greg KH
2004-08-27 0:21 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <200408270917.47656.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-08-27 12:47 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 12:58 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-27 13:30 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 13:04 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-27 13:13 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-08-27 13:44 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 23:18 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-28 0:03 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-28 0:19 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-28 0:50 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2004-08-27 16:46 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 13:35 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27 12:56 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <buok6vldx4l.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
2004-08-27 12:38 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] ` <200408270845.38015.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-08-27 12:44 ` Wouter Van Hemel
2004-08-27 13:41 ` Paulo Marques
2004-08-27 13:58 ` Wouter Van Hemel
[not found] <1092793392.17286.75.camel@localhost>
[not found] ` <1092845135.8044.22.camel@localhost>
[not found] ` <20040823221028.GB4694@kroah.com>
2004-08-24 22:58 ` Nemosoft Unv.
2004-08-24 23:04 ` Greg KH
2004-08-25 14:02 ` Simon Oosthoek
2004-08-26 0:55 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-26 1:27 ` Rob van Nieuwkerk
2004-08-26 9:00 ` syrius.ml
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