From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262902AbTLJPMX (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:12:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263568AbTLJPMX (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:12:23 -0500 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:33969 "EHLO work.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262902AbTLJPLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:11:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 07:11:10 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: David Woodhouse Cc: Larry McVoy , Andre Hedrick , karim@opersys.com, Linus Torvalds , Kendall Bennett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? Message-ID: <20031210151110.GA6896@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , David Woodhouse , Larry McVoy , Andre Hedrick , karim@opersys.com, Linus Torvalds , Kendall Bennett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1071066315.5712.344.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20031210144612.GA19357@work.bitmover.com> <1071068703.5712.398.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1071068703.5712.398.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:05:03PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 06:46 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Unless I need more coffee (which is certainly possible, it's early), > > yeah, I disagree with this. A contract could do this but a copyright > > based license doesn't seem like it can. > > Why so? I can license my work under whatever terms I please. > > I certainly can't force you to _accept_ the terms of my licence -- you > always have the option to decline -- but in that case you may not use my > work. You may license *your* work under whatever terms you want. Those terms can't extend to things that aren't your work in a copyright license. You need a contract to do that and even then there are limits to what you can do. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm