From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271242AbTGWTjv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:39:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271243AbTGWTjv (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:39:51 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:63506 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271242AbTGWTjs (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:39:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:46:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Alan Cox cc: Martin Diehl , Adrian Bunk , "Adam J. Richter" , andersen@codepoet.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd In-Reply-To: <1058987946.5516.117.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan, Last time I checked, if there is a bug, you submit a report, and it is fixed or a solution to fix it is reviewed/accepted. BUGREPORT: GPLv2 is broken and leaves the kernel in a near unprotected state where authors/copyright holders must bare the cost to defend their works. FIX: Migration to OSL 1.1 with language to address compatiblity issues with GPLvN operating in an OSL enviroment. ACTION: Using the credits list as a principle test for initial contract for disclosing terms of migration. Come on, don't be a stick in the mud. This is Linux, the definition of doing it better and faster. Cheers, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On 23 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 20:08, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > GPL provides no means to enable the author/copyright holder to defend and > > recover legal fees occurred during discovery and litigation. > > I don't think anyone says the GPL is a perfect license > > > What I find odd in you politics which stinks, is you and redhat are > > pumping OSL into new features which are not generally submitted to the > > standard base. I do not care, but it does look funny. > > Red Hat is using OSL for various new projects based on the fact that > lawyers and legal scholars think that the OSL is the better license to > be using and that it achieves desired goals for free software. The > kernel however is GPL and its kind of hard to change that. Certainly Red > Hat can't do that. > > OSL wasn't around when the kernel began or my guess is Linus would have > gone that way to avoid political baggage. > > > - > 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/ >