linux-kernel - Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

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Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:51:45 +1000
From:	"Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@...il.com>
To:	davids@...master.com
Cc:	"Neil Brown" <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

On 2/16/07, David Schwartz <davids@...master.com> wrote:
> Actually, the people who are being worms are the people who are trying to
> use the GPL as a club to coerce people into not exercising the rights the
> GPL gave them. The people trying to change the rules in the middle of the
> game are the worms, not the people trying to play by them.

I must have missed something, who is trying to coerce people into not
exercising the rights the GPL gave them?  I don't debate that people
are trying to coerce people into passing on the rights the GPL gave
them when they distribute the kernel... coercion, that's what software
licenses are.  Who's changing the rules?

Trent
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