linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

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Message-ID: <20080207150612.21ba60df@dilbert.local>
Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:06:12 +0100
From:	Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@...utronix.de>
To:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Diego Zuccato <diego@...llo.alma.unibo.it>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

Am Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:49:42 +1030
schrieb David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>:

> Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
> > If somebody prefers an other OS for license reasons only, let them.
> > You cannot have open source software without open source license.
> > If a company chooses Linux, they do it for technical reasons, and
> > because they're able to modify the sources to suit their needs.
> > Whatever advantages they see in Linux, they have to know that they
> > have to accept its license. Just saying "I like your software but
> > your license is stupid" is childish. Use CE instead.
> 
> Nobody is saying "I don't like your licence."  The issue is a
> technical restriction in Linux that attempts to restrict non-GPL
> software from running under it.  

What are you trying to say? You like the license but you're against
enforcing it? 

> It's a bullish approach, technically incompetent,

What's incompetent?

> legally meaningless

It is not legally meaningless if copyright holders publicly state how
they interpret the license and what they consider a license violation.
In the end, a court must decide, but lots of courts will at least look
at the statements the copyright holders made over the years.

> and politically damaging.

That's your opinion because it's damaging _your_ political goals.

Hans



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