From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267974AbUH2PAC (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:00:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267999AbUH2PAC (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:00:02 -0400 Received: from 213-229-38-18.static.adsl-line.inode.at ([213.229.38.18]:51168 "HELO home.winischhofer.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267974AbUH2O76 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:59:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4131EF80.4000400@winischhofer.net> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:00:16 +0200 From: Thomas Winischhofer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040805) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: arjanv@redhat.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches References: <412F4008.4050700@winischhofer.net> <20040827130151.46c246b0.davem@redhat.com> <412FF60B.5080009@winischhofer.net> <1093676112.2792.6.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <1093786086.27899.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1093786086.27899.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 Sad, 2004-08-28 at 07:55, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >>Since you are a lawyer you know what "moral rights" are. And since you >>know what those are, I assume you did the same research about moral >>rights in the Netherlands (the country the PWC work was created) as I >>did and noticed that this issue isn't as black and white as you claim in >>your simplification I quoted above... > > > The GPL is very careful to explicitly grant rights in the text. There is > a reason for that. Pwc should stay in the kernel. As much as I share your opinion, unfortunately, it's not that simple. However, I will get back to that subject as soon as I have time. Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net http://www.winischhofer.net/ twini AT xfree86 DOT org