From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:57:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030719235748.GB1198@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718222702.GC658@work.bitmover.com>
Hi!
> > My understanding of the relevant case law in the United States is that
> > these types of restrictions are not allowed under copyright law itself.
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:23:30PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Actually your license is simply irrelevant in most of thre world. You
> > aren't allowed to forbid reverse engineering for interoperability.
>
> "Judge, I want to violate this license on this product that I got
> for free because it's not free enough".
Its not free at all.
Alan is right, that parts of licence agreement are irrelevant in
Europe, and what RMS is suggesting is perfectly legal here. Like it or
not. Don't try to make "RMS suggested something ilegal" case. Thanx,
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-19 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-18 19:51 Bitkeeper Richard Stallman
2003-07-18 20:06 ` Bitkeeper Rik van Riel
2003-07-18 20:22 ` Bitkeeper nick
2003-07-18 20:40 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:28 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-19 23:45 ` Bitkeeper Pavel Machek
2003-07-20 0:23 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-18 20:32 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Rik van Riel
2003-07-19 18:42 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-19 18:49 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 18:57 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-19 19:05 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 20:02 ` Bitkeeper Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-18 20:09 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:03 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-18 21:58 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 22:17 ` Bitkeeper Mike Fedyk
2003-07-18 22:39 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-19 8:20 ` Bitkeeper Eric W. Biederman
2003-07-19 15:34 ` Bitkeeper Mark Mielke
2003-07-18 22:29 ` Bitkeeper Scott Robert Ladd
2003-07-18 20:30 ` Bitkeeper Michael Buesch
2003-07-18 20:36 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 20:44 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-18 21:03 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:08 ` Bitkeeper David Schwartz
2003-07-18 21:28 ` Bitkeeper Shawn
2003-07-18 21:23 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-18 21:50 ` Bitkeeper David Lang
2003-07-18 21:54 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-18 22:16 ` Bitkeeper Alan Cox
2003-07-18 22:01 ` Bitkeeper Trever L. Adams
2003-07-18 22:27 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 9:45 ` Bitkeeper Marcus Metzler
2003-07-19 20:42 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-19 21:57 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 22:28 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-19 22:39 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-19 23:45 ` Bitkeeper Adrian Bunk
2003-07-20 0:02 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-20 0:10 ` Bitkeeper Tupshin Harper
2003-07-20 0:26 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-20 1:11 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 0:23 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 0:28 ` Bitkeeper jiho
2003-07-20 0:30 ` Bitkeeper Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-20 0:50 ` Bitkeeper Larry McVoy
2003-07-20 0:22 ` Bitkeeper Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <3F19DA04.80809@c-zone.net>
[not found] ` <20030719235526.GA31428@work.bitmover.com>
2003-07-20 0:21 ` Bitkeeper jiho
2003-07-19 23:57 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-07-18 21:06 ` Bitkeeper Jörn Engel
2003-07-18 22:00 ` Bitkeeper Svein Ove Aas
2003-07-18 22:25 ` BK is not heaven, sure [Was: Re: Bitkeeper] J.A. Magallon
2003-07-18 23:50 ` Bitkeeper James Simmons
2003-07-19 1:05 ` offtopic crap (was Re: Bitkeeper) David S. Miller
2003-07-19 15:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-20 2:50 ` Bitkeeper Zack Brown
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-19 16:00 Bitkeeper John Bradford
2003-07-19 16:17 ` Bitkeeper Mark Mielke
2003-07-19 10:33 Bitkeeper John Bradford
2003-02-15 8:21 BitKeeper John Bradford
2003-02-15 22:26 ` BitKeeper Pavel Machek
2003-02-16 11:40 ` BitKeeper John Bradford
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