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Message-ID: <20080206202810.GA16257@kroah.com> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:28:10 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se> Cc: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:14:48PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:34:18 -0800 > Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote: > > > In the end, it's up to the copyright holders to enforce the license. > > And as I have stated in the past, a number of them have made public > > statements as to what they think about this issue. And it corresponds > > exactly with what Marcel has stated above. > > > > So if you wish to violate the copyright of others, you take the risk > > that you might be caught and punished, something that you and your > > legal council needs to take into account. > > So when do you sue Nvidia, ATI, Atheros, Broadcom[1], > M-Systems/Sandisk[2] or Nokia? All those companies distribute binary > drivers for Linux without providing source code? How do you know that such legal action isn't already happening? greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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