From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: davids@webmaster.com
Cc: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:58:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DBCCD2.70800@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKOECFGJAC.davids@webmaster.com>
David Schwartz wrote:
> Either license can grant you the right to distribute it, but how you get the
> rights to distribute has *NO* effect on the recipient. They receive a lawful
> copy and any rights the original author grants them under a license from
> that original author. You have no power to grant or modify rights to the
> original work.
Secondary parties have the power to grant or modify rights, if delegated
to them by the original author.
Relicensing and transfer of rights happens all the time. How do you
think most music gets into consumer hands?
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-03 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-09-01 16:48 ` Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 17:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 17:37 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 20:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 21:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 21:51 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 22:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 21:27 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 21:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 23:29 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 23:48 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-09-02 0:11 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 0:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 0:53 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 10:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-02 11:20 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 11:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 12:28 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 12:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-02 13:00 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 13:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-02 13:57 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-02 14:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 15:58 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 18:23 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-09-02 18:21 ` Al Viro
2007-09-02 12:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-02 0:36 ` Jason Dixon
2007-09-02 1:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 1:39 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 1:42 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-09-02 1:53 ` Al Viro
2007-09-02 1:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 1:58 ` Casey Dahlin
2007-09-02 2:06 ` Al Viro
2007-09-02 2:44 ` Jason Dixon
2007-09-02 1:55 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 3:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-02 5:09 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 5:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-02 2:22 ` Jonathan Gray
2007-09-02 10:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-01 22:03 ` Fwd: " Sam Leffler
2007-09-01 22:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 20:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-01 20:57 ` Jacob Meuser
2007-09-03 2:01 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-03 3:11 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-03 9:48 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-03 18:01 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-03 18:26 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-03 19:04 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-03 19:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-04 0:19 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-04 13:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-04 17:13 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-04 19:28 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-04 19:44 ` Michael Poole
2007-09-04 23:08 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-04 20:28 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-05 12:16 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-04 8:50 ` James Bruce
2007-09-04 16:59 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-03 8:58 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-09-03 9:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-03 9:21 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-03 9:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-03 9:54 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-06 19:12 ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-03 2:01 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-02 0:02 Fwd: " Bob Beck
2007-09-02 0:36 ` Theo de Raadt
2007-09-02 1:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 1:52 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 2:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 11:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-02 1:32 ` Adrian Bunk
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2007-09-02 14:47 ` Bodo Eggert
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