From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751418AbWAaUDu (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:03:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751419AbWAaUDu (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:03:50 -0500 Received: from c-67-177-35-222.hsd1.ut.comcast.net ([67.177.35.222]:54699 "EHLO ns1.utah-nac.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751418AbWAaUDt (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:03:49 -0500 Message-ID: <43DFB635.2000309@wolfmountaingroup.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:10:45 -0700 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: Marc Perkel Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Chase Venters , "linux-os \\(Dick Johnson\\)" , Kyle Moffett , Patrick McLean , Stephen Hemminger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders References: <43D114A8.4030900@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20060120111103.2ee5b531@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <43D13B2A.6020504@cs.ubishops.ca> <43D7C780.6080000@perkel.com> <43D7B20D.7040203@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7B5C4.5040601@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43D7D05D.7030101@perkel.com> <1138387136.26811.8.camel@localhost> <1138620390.31089.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43DF9D42.7050802@wolfmountaingroup.com> <43DFC0B3.3000909@perkel.com> In-Reply-To: <43DFC0B3.3000909@perkel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marc Perkel wrote: > Linus, > > For what it's worth, maybe you should run some of these issues past > the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) or Robin Gross at > IPJustice.org who might be able to review these issues and help make > sure you're doing it right. Great advice, however, the EFF are not experts in IP law. I would suggest a good firm in Palo Alto, like Rosati, Goodrich and Sonsini, they are experts in corporate IP law and Corporate law in general. They would know all the loopholes people and companies are likely to use. Stay away from these freebie Law Groups who are more likely to kiss your butt and tell you waht you want to hear rather than what you NEED to hear. OSDL should pick up the tab. It will cost around 30K for a good analysis from them. Jeff > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >