From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269675AbUJGV5k (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:57:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268357AbUJGV4Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:56:25 -0400 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:17357 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268360AbUJGVyV (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:54:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4165B265.2050506@drdos.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:17:25 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle Moffett Cc: "jmerkey@comcast.net" , jonathan@jonmasters.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alan Cox Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone References: <100120041740.9915.415D967600014EC2000026BB2200758942970A059D0A0306@comcast.net> <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com> <1096738439.25290.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41659748.9090906@drdos.com> <8B592DC4-18A9-11D9-ABEB-000393ACC76E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <8B592DC4-18A9-11D9-ABEB-000393ACC76E@mac.com> 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 Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Oct 07, 2004, at 15:21, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >> This offer must be accepted by **ALL** copyright holders and... > > > This will never happen. Even if there is just _one_ GPL idealist who > doesn't give a rat's ass about receiving money for their kernel code, > you can't get your license. Given that, I know several people who > wouldn't give you a license no matter how much you offered them > for it. > > Cheers, > Kyle Moffett Then their code could be removed from the snapshot, and the folks who were more interested in being smart rather than being right would get the $$$. That's easy. Jeff