linux-kernel - Re: Contributors can not just rescind the license (Legal Opinion)

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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:42:36 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     "www.Advocati.org" <advocati@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Contributors can not just rescind the license (Legal Opinion)

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:31:32AM +0200, www.Advocati.org wrote:
> CONTRIBUTORS CAN NOT JUST RESCIND THE LICENSE
> THEY GRANTED UNDER GPLv2. IT IS *COPYLEFTED*

> A letter from 17.09.2018 by @observerofaffairs
> titled 'GPL version 2 is a bare license. Recind. (Regarding (future)
> Code of Conduct Bannings)'
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/17/1174,

> repeated by another letter from 20.09.2018 by @unconditionedwitness
> titled 'Re: A Plea to Unfuck our Codes of Conduct'
> https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/

You're responding to trolling by our dear MikeeUSA, whom most of us long
since learned to recognize and ignore.  There are better uses for your time
than responding to a notorious cartooney.

He's as nasty a troll as CoralineAda, and about as harmful to the community.


Meow!
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