linux-kernel - Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

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Date:	Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:42:36 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, karderio <karderio@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:43:44AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> All this is about "fair use", and "fair use" comes from compatibility
> between the author's intent and the user's intent. 

That is NOT TRUE.  If the author's intent is that anyone who is using
a TV with a screen larger than 29" and with two chairs is a theatrical
performance, and so anyone with a large screen TV must ask permission
from the MPAA first and pay $$$ before they crack open a DVD, would
you think that they should be allowed to claim that watching a DVD
isn't fair use unless you obey their rules?

I thought not.

						- Ted

P.S.  For people who live in the US; write your congresscritters; the
MPAA wants to propose new legislation stating exactly this.

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