From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270894AbUJVJM4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:12:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270889AbUJVJJb (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:09:31 -0400 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:5584 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270894AbUJVJIT (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:08:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:07:52 +0200 From: David Weinehall To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Dax Kelson , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout Message-ID: <20041022090752.GA1308@khan.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: "Jeff V. Merkey" , Dax Kelson , Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com> <1098218286.8675.82.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41757478.4090402@drdos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Accept-Language: Swedish, English X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 X-GPG-Key: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/files/pubkey_dc47ca16.gpg.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:09:28PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: [snip] > No. They seem to have some factual concrete evidence IP covered under > Employee > agreements was used and subsequently converted into Linux, and they are > very > confident of this. From a cursory viewpoint, it looks valid. I think > they have a case > (having been sued and nailed for the same type of thing by Novell). (Quoting from groklaw wrt that lawsuit:) "The judge had a few descriptive words for Mr. Merkey, as you will note particularly in paragraph 123 - 125 of the Findings of Fact: 124. In fact, however, Merkey is not just prone to exaggeration, he also is and can be deceptive, not only to his adversaries, but also to his own partners, his business associates and to the court. He deliberately describes his own, separate reality." [snip] Meanwhile, life goes on as usual in the real world. Oh, and if you happen to need any code I might have contributed to the kernel, it's available under the GPL. Only. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/