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

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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:28:50 +0100
From:	Jon K Hellan <jon.kare.hellan@...nett.no>
To:	"D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>
Cc:	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

D. Hazelton wrote:
(as is the GPL - if you release code under
> the GPL you no longer have a legal right to it. Note the following text that 
> appears in the GPL:
> 
> "  We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
> (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
> distribute and/or modify the software."
> --IE: Once you release the code under the GPL, it becomes the *copyrighted* 
> *property* of the FSF and you are just another person that the GPL is applied 
> to. 

"We" means "whoever is issuing" the license. I.e. you, if it's your 
work, and you didn't reassign it to somebody else.

Jon Kåre
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