From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: linux-kernel-owner+davids=40webmaster.com-S1754697AbXICI7Q@vger.kernel.org,
"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@garzik.org>,
"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 02:21:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <WorldClient-F200709030221.AA21100013@webmaster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DBCCD2.70800@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Secondary parties have the power to grant or modify rights, if
> delegated
> to them by the original author.
Yes, but this has to be done in writing and neither the BSD nor the GPL
license claim to allow this.
> Relicensing and transfer of rights happens all the time. How do you
> think most music gets into consumer hands?
Through written agreements to permit this. Neither the BSD nor the GPL
license do. You cannot revoke someone's GPL rights to code you did not
write because they flow directly from the original author to the recipient.
The GPL is quite clear, you do not grant a license to anyone else's code,
the original author does. This is why the GPL does not need to be in writing.
DS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-03 9:21 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
2007-09-03 9:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-03 9:21 ` David Schwartz [this message]
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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