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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>,
	"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	andersen@codepoet.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd
Date: 23 Jul 2003 20:19:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058987946.5516.117.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10307231202520.13376-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-23 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-23  5:12 Promise SATA driver GPL'd Adam J. Richter
2003-07-23  5:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23  9:08   ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:12     ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-23 10:21       ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 11:47         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 11:54           ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-23 22:22           ` On "any later version" in GPL [Was: Re: Promise SATA driver GPL'd] Horst von Brand
2003-07-23 10:37       ` Promise SATA driver GPL'd Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 10:29     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 10:51       ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 11:43         ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 12:17           ` Adrian Bunk
2003-07-23 12:32           ` Martin Diehl
2003-07-23 12:57             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 19:08               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:19                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-07-23 19:33                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 19:46                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 20:59                 ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:22                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:40                     ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 22:35                       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:02                         ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:08                           ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 23:33                             ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 23:45                               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24  0:14                                 ` dacin
2003-07-24  0:23                                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24  0:21                     ` David Schwartz
2003-07-24  0:21                       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 13:23                       ` Jesse Pollard
2003-07-24 14:01                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-24 18:37                         ` David Schwartz
2003-07-23 22:32                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23 22:46                     ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-23 23:13                       ` Roman Zippel
2003-07-23 10:40   ` Adam Sampson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-22 18:45 Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 18:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 19:07   ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 19:39     ` Samuel Flory
2003-07-22 20:56     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 21:39       ` Erik Andersen
2003-07-22 23:25         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27  3:01         ` Nick Urbanik
2003-08-27  3:14           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-27  9:00             ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-27 11:51               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-22 20:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-23 13:20     ` Mark Watts
2003-07-23  1:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-23  2:38   ` Shawn
2003-07-23 10:32   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-23 18:58     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-24 11:22       ` Matthias Andree
2003-08-13 13:34     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-13 14:24       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-15 10:17         ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-25  3:44 ` Milan Roubal

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