From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:21:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:21:16 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:38120 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 04:21:12 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Novell Attacks Linux Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9mfka8$sb$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <20010825020114.A12724@vger.timpanogas.org> <3B8809A5.DB7B6764@baywinds.org> <20010825153009.B14524@vger.timpanogas.org> <9mcurg$cuo$1@forge.intermeta.de> <20010827122838.A20599@vger.timpanogas.org> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 998986888 10432 212.34.181.4 (28 Aug 2001 08:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:21:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Jeff V. Merkey" writes: >People have downloaded NWFS from LKML. If Novell is making claims >it's stolen, in the US I have an obligation to inform these people. >You live in Germany, so I don't expect you to understand our laws. >Under our law, Novell can go after any of these people, so they >need to be warned. According to my law understanding, people downloaded source code from a public ftp server on the Internet according to a distribution and licensing agreement ("GPL") that was issued by the "vendor" (distributor) called TRG. If you released code that was "stolen" to the public under a license that you could not (or were not allowed to) issue, they will go after you. Not after your customers. In Germany, there is something called "nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen" (roughly translated "in best intention"). This would apply here (under german law of course). Novell can (in best) demand that everyone who downloaded that code "cease and desist" to use it. They can hold _you_ as the distributor responsible for the damage to their business. And that's the reason why you make politics here. You want to turn "Novell attacks TRG" into "Novell attacks Linux" because you hope of a possible "fallout" on Novell. That's what I call "make politics on LKM". But I know, you're in the country where people marry with 14, may drive cars with 16, carry guns with 19 but have to wait for being 21 to drink alcohol. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20