From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265063AbTLFJzi (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 04:55:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265081AbTLFJzi (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 04:55:38 -0500 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:43649 "EHLO imladris.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265063AbTLFJzg (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 04:55:36 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? From: David Woodhouse To: Larry McVoy Cc: karim@opersys.com, Linus Torvalds , Kendall Bennett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20031206022842.GA28765@work.bitmover.com> References: <3FCDE5CA.2543.3E4EE6AA@localhost> <3FCED34B.5050309@opersys.com> <1070669311.8421.35.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <20031206022842.GA28765@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1070704520.8816.10.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7.dwmw2.1) Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 09:55:21 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dwmw2@infradead.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 18:28 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:08:31AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > You either do that or you don't have permission to use my work. Whether > > your own work is derived or not is completely irrelevant; if you don't > > agree to the terms of _my_ licence, you don't get to use _my_ code. > > If and only if, as has been pointed out here many times, your license is > enforceable. This is true. The above applies only if the licence is enforceable, as Larry says. As has also been pointed out many times; if my licence is not enforceable then it is void, and you have no right to use my work whether you obey its conditions or not. -- dwmw2