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From: "Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:54:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060614045423.A18812@openss7.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150281823.3490.14.camel@localhost.localdomain>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:43:43AM +0100

Alan,

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Alan Cox wrote:

> It isn't "policy" its called copyright law.

I know that I said I'd shut up, but I missed in TRIPS where it said
that symbols must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL...  Could you point that out?
(Just kidding.)

> You don't seem to understand copyright law either. The GPL like all
> copyright licenses deals with the right to make copies and to create and
> control derivative works. It's not "defeated" by four lines of code.

The 3 or 4 lines of code that I wrote as an original expression before
the patch was submitted.

> Is that a confession ;)

No, just a declaration: the code in question was released under GPL
Version 2.

> Copyright is not about novelty, you have it confused with the
> theoretical (not actual) role of patents. Wrong kind of intellectual
> monopoly right.

Yes, perhaps I should have said "original" instead of "novel".  The patch
is not "original" as it was predated by equivalent (machine translatable)
original expressions.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-14 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-12 23:56 [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API Sridhar Samudrala
2006-06-13  5:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-13 11:13   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-06-13 11:22   ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 21:12     ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-13 21:40       ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 22:00         ` Chase Venters
2006-06-13 22:30           ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-13 22:47             ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 23:59               ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14  0:31                 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14  0:53                   ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14  6:07                     ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14  7:58                       ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14  9:28                         ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 10:43                       ` Alan Cox
2006-06-14 10:54                         ` Brian F. G. Bidulock [this message]
2006-06-14 10:36                     ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-13 22:44           ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 23:42           ` Ben Greear
2006-06-14  0:05             ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14  0:18               ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14  0:29                 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14  0:36                   ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14  0:19               ` Ben Greear
2006-06-14  0:38                 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 13:30       ` Harald Welte
2006-06-14 14:29         ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-14 15:26           ` Harald Welte
2006-06-14 17:48         ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-14 18:03           ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 20:52           ` Sridhar Samudrala
2006-06-13 14:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-13 16:27   ` Sridhar Samudrala

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