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Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record
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Linonut |
Subject: |
Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:28:05 -0400 |
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slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) |
* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo:
> The trouble is you can't write a copyright license that controls "all third
> parties" as long "as they follow the GPL". Congress specifically forbid this
> situation with 17 USC sec. 301.
Tell it to IBM lawyers (for example). Their copyright is appended to a
GPL notice in many Linux kernel modules. Roughly 870 C and assembler files.
Sample:
/*
* Kernel Probes (KProbes)
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*
* Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2002, 2004
--
Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls...
if thou art in the bathtub, it tolls for thee.
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, (continued)
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Tim Smith, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rjack, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, rjack, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Tim Smith, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record,
Linonut <=
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/07/21
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/21
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, rjack, 2008/07/21
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/21
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/07/21
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/21
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/22