From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964922AbVLFJdR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 04:33:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964936AbVLFJdR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 04:33:17 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:18846 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964922AbVLFJdR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 04:33:17 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Tim Bird Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , David Woodhouse , arjan@infradead.org, andrew@walrond.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4394E750.8020205@am.sony.com> References: <1133779953.9356.9.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200512051826.06703.andrew@walrond.org> <1133817575.11280.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1133817888.9356.78.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1133819684.11280.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4394D396.1020102@am.sony.com> <20051206005341.GN28539@opteron.random> <4394E750.8020205@am.sony.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:26:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1133861208.10158.34.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:20 -0800, Tim Bird wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >[...] > > The _GPL tag is useful as an hint to binary only vendors as as such it > > makes perfect sense. > Well, if it makes sense to have developers giving out legal > advice, then I guess so. Lots of patent attorneys and average law persons gives advices on technical stuff (where they effectively have no idea what's really going on) so it *must* be legitimate the other way 'round. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services