linux-kernel - Re: GPL only modules

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Message-Id: <200612191309.kBJD9aRk021171@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:09:36 -0300
From:	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>
To:	Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@...o.cam.ac.uk>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@...hat.com>,
	Ricardo Galli <gallir@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL only modules 

Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@...o.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > That said, I think they are still pushing the "you don't have any
> > rights unless we give you additional rights explicitly" angle a bit
> > too hard.
> 
> From section 2 (GPLv3, draft 2):
> 
>  This License acknowledges your rights of "fair use" or other
>  equivalent, as provided by copyright law. 
> 
> By choosing 'acknowledges' as the verb, the licensee says explicitly
> that fair-use rights are already yours, not that they are being given
> to you.

Pure noise, a license can't take them away in any case.

[That is my pet pevee with GPL: It has a bit of legally binding text, and
 lots of "explanation" and "philosophy" that don't add anything but
 confusion. A clear-cut license plus an explanation/comment would have been
 better. IMHO, IANAL. HAND.]
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