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

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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:24:59 +1000
From:	"Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@...il.com>
To:	"D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>
Cc:	"Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>,
	"David Lang" <david.lang@...italinsight.com>, davids@...master.com,
	"v j" <vj.linux@...il.com>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Neil Brown" <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

On 2/22/07, D. Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net> wrote:
> "  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.

Put *down* the crack pipe.

Trent
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