From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262465AbTGAPwe (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:52:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262530AbTGAPwe (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:52:34 -0400 Received: from lvs01-fl.valueweb.net ([216.219.253.200]:48336 "EHLO ams003.ftl.affinity.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262465AbTGAPwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:52:32 -0400 Message-ID: <3F01B162.6020706@coyotegulch.com> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:05:54 -0400 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030618 Debian/1.3.1-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL References: <002901c33fe6$87374480$0200a8c0@wsl3> In-Reply-To: <002901c33fe6$87374480$0200a8c0@wsl3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org vlad@lrsehosting.com wrote: > Just for the record, US law does not work that way. No civil contract can > force you to do something illegal as Andre suggests. He's just flat wrong > about this. Thanks. This entire thread is filled with misinformation; I've been trying to restrain myself from correcting people who obviously have more opinion than fact in hand. For those who wish to understand copyright in the United States (and learn that registration is *not* required), I suggest visiting: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/ -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com)