From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270536AbUJTXrl (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:47:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270537AbUJTXri (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:47:38 -0400 Received: from pop-a065c05.pas.sa.earthlink.net ([207.217.121.183]:51862 "EHLO pop-a065c05.pas.sa.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270455AbUJTXnt (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:43:49 -0400 From: Eric Bambach Reply-To: eric@cisu.net To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:43:49 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> In-Reply-To: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410201843.49835.eric@cisu.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 19 October 2004 12:38 pm, you wrote: > On a side note, the GPL buyout previously offered has been modified. We > will be contacting > individual contributors and negotiating with each copyright holder for > the code we wish to > convert on a case by case basis. The remaining portions of code will > remain GPL > The 50K per copy offer still stands for the whole thing if you guys can > ever figure out > how to set something like this up. > *sigh* Although I own no code in the kernel, I hope to some day and offers like this sicken me. It seems that most of the coders have either ignored this person or flat out said no. His offer is ridiculous and he wants to rip out some of the most useful code to get what he wants. However I urge all you developers to stand up and say no. Just out of curiosity can we get AM, CK, AC,Linus and other major devolpers to say no publicly? As I understand it these people have all made significant contributions to the kernel and keeping their code GPL would ensure all this joker could get (for proprietary greed only shady-business practice purposes) would be useless in any real project. I think a large "no" from key players would be a great show of strength in the ideaologies and commitment many of the developers on this list hold about the kernel. It would also go a long way in affirming that the true len ---------------------------------------- EB > All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to read > from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm). > oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached. > Is there anything else I can contribute? The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and a ballistic missile. --Alan Cox 2000-12-08 ----------------------------------------