linux-kernel - Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

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Message-Id: <E1I4Nf0-00016f-9A@be1.lrz>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:05:46 +0200
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
	William D Waddington <william.waddington@...zmo.com>,
	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Please release a stable kernel Linux 3.0

Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:27 +0200
> Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com> wrote:
>> On 06/28/2007 06:30 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

>> > Public domain is GPL compatible.
>> 
>> Would you happen to have an opinion on the attached? I don't so much need it
> 
> The answer is "NO!!!!"
> 
> Public domain also means "I don't have to give you the source".
> If its merged with the kernel the resulting work is GPL anyway
> 
>> Stating that code which one intends to be in the public domain has "GPL and
>> additional rights" is a bit of a travesty though.
> 
> Indeed if its public domain you may have almost no rights at all
> depending what you were given. Once you get the source code you can do
> stuff but I don't have to give you that. If its public domain I can find
> security holes in it, and refuse to provide the fixed module in source
> form even.

The GPL forces nobody to not release his module under PD, therefore it can't
protect you from that. Even minor changes - like adjusting the module to use
to the current API - won't change that, at least in Germany they'd have to
qualify as a work of their own in order to create a GPL-only derived work,
because anything not qualifying for that could also be integrated into the
PD version, and both would remain identical.
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