From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266155AbUJJW0Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:26:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268532AbUJJW0Z (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:26:25 -0400 Received: from mailhub-node1.mailbox.net.uk ([195.82.125.30]:62928 "EHLO mailhub-node1.mailbox.net.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266155AbUJJW0W (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:26:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4169B704.8080906@jonmasters.org> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:26:12 +0100 From: Jon Masters Organization: World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040918) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Brian Litzinger , Dave Jones , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Kyle Moffett , "jmerkey@comcast.net" , Linux Kernel Mailing List 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> <4165B265.2050506@drdos.com> <20041007221826.GB5302@redhat.com> <20041010063541.GA9445@top.worldcontrol.com> <1097414703.29264.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1097414703.29264.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Cox wrote: | On Sul, 2004-10-10 at 07:35, Brian Litzinger wrote: | |>At least in New York and California the owner of intellectual |>property has to defend his property. Otherwise it becomes |>abandoned. (just like real property) | This sort of thing thankfully only applies to Americans for copyright, | foreigners have more rights in the USA here than US citizens do because | of international treaties. Well that's pretty typical. | Courts in europe at least also take a dim view of ambushing people (in | other words sitting on an infringement for a few years to rack up the | value). What about those who cannot comment on the code, for example people who have since died or dropped off the face of the Earth? Out of curiousity, if anyone knows what view is held in that situation, I'd love to know. This is of course purely academic. The day someone actually convinces enough kernel developers to relicense under such terms is the day hell freezes over and Darl personally calls each developer to apologise for being an ass for the last few years. Cheers, Jon. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBabcEeTyyexZHHxERAlwUAJ4s0UjLidZfFgmqOYWCI02cfThj4wCcDYVk sI9wA1TOwgSDEf4ex9VJLDg= =Issb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----