From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271311AbTGWUus (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:50:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271313AbTGWUus (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:50:48 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:32531 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271311AbTGWUur (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:50:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:59:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@serv To: Andre Hedrick cc: Alan Cox , Martin Diehl , Adrian Bunk , "Adam J. Richter" , , , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: 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 Hi, On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote: > GPL provides no means to enable the author/copyright holder to defend and > recover legal fees occurred during discovery and litigation. What you're forgetting is that the goal of the GPL is to promote freedom not prosecution. You don't do this via litigations, this way you only alienate everyone, but you don't win support for free software. The free software movement is a social movement not a legal movement. In court you only reach short term effects, but if people vote with their wallet you can achieve a lot more profound results. bye, Roman