From: "Dave Neuer" <mr.fred.smoothie@pobox.com>
To: "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net>
Cc: davids@webmaster.com,
"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPL only modules
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:01:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <161717d50612181301i6ee6fbebg14134c50a189a860@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612181246.49504.dhazelton@enter.net>
On 12/18/06, D. Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
>
> Ah, okay. However I'm quite sure that there are more ways to accomplish the
> tasks handled by the code in the header files (in most cases).
Well, that may be so. Unfortunately, Lexmark vs. Static Controls
actually says that even if there are other ways, if those ways are far
less optimal, the result is as if there were only one way. I think the
decision is part of one big, giant mess that is US IP law as it
relates to software.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-18 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-16 18:27 GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Ricardo Galli
2006-12-16 21:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-17 0:22 ` Ricardo Galli
2006-12-17 4:10 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-17 13:54 ` GPL only modules Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-17 15:56 ` Ricardo Galli
2006-12-17 16:25 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-17 21:32 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-17 21:46 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-18 15:47 ` Dave Neuer
2006-12-18 17:46 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-18 21:01 ` Dave Neuer [this message]
2006-12-18 17:16 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 6:35 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-19 16:39 ` David Lang
2006-12-18 19:41 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 22:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-19 3:42 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-20 1:02 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-20 23:28 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-17 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-17 22:45 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-18 6:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-18 23:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-18 15:38 ` Dave Neuer
2006-12-18 17:02 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-18 17:23 ` Dave Neuer
2006-12-18 19:27 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-18 20:37 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 20:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-18 21:23 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-18 22:35 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-19 1:29 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 16:55 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-20 0:09 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-20 0:06 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 22:06 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-12-18 23:28 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-19 1:35 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 2:38 ` D. Hazelton
2006-12-19 12:42 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-20 0:20 ` Alexandre Oliva
2006-12-18 23:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-18 23:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-19 0:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-19 1:39 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 4:20 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-12-20 19:14 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-20 23:08 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-20 23:26 ` David Schwartz
2006-12-19 7:39 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-12-19 7:40 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2006-12-19 8:00 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-12-19 13:09 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-12-19 17:27 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-12-20 1:06 ` Alexandre Oliva
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-14 0:32 GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Greg KH
2006-12-14 0:43 ` Jonathan Corbet
2006-12-14 0:55 ` Greg KH
2006-12-14 4:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-14 15:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-14 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-14 17:08 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-12-14 17:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-14 17:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-12-14 18:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-18 10:28 ` GPL only modules Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-14 18:15 ` GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Eric Sandeen
2006-12-14 18:39 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-12-14 19:42 ` Scott Preece
2006-12-14 19:34 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-12-15 5:28 ` GPL only modules Alexandre Oliva
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