From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:37:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <557A1BBF.1070007@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150611232623.GA2026@www.mrbrklyn.com>
On 06/11/2015 07:26 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> Not at all. You have a good point there are definitely legal situations
> other than relicensing which are problematic.
>
> Lets say Apple decides that are going to take the Linux Kernel and
> alter it extensively, in order for it to work with a new hardware platform
> that they created. And lets say don't return the code base to the public.
> Now who is going to protect the license and sue them? You have literaly
> thousands of partiticpants who have standing now in this case.
That means a thousand possible plaintiffs.
s/Apple/VMware/ and you get this:
http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/
A number of GPL enforcement projects involving the Linux kernel
have resulted in GPL compliance already.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-11 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 9:19 Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy Chris Packham
2015-06-11 4:58 ` Jason Ball
2015-06-11 5:10 ` Chris Packham
2015-06-11 5:19 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 14:28 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 14:41 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 15:38 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 16:39 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 17:54 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 17:57 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 23:26 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 23:37 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2015-06-11 23:55 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-12 0:13 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-12 1:28 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-12 23:29 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-13 15:40 ` Bjørn Mork
2015-06-13 19:08 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-15 23:08 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-15 23:55 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-16 16:23 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-13 16:23 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-14 21:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
[not found] ` <B424B28F-AB7E-4972-95BB-FF91D85D0FED@gmail.com>
2015-06-14 23:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
[not found] ` <557E0FF7.1000607@gmail.com>
2015-06-15 2:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-12 0:52 ` Greg KH
2015-06-12 3:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-12 4:39 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-12 7:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-11 13:13 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-11 14:27 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 14:25 ` Greg KH
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