From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265133AbTLFMbw (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:31:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265136AbTLFMbw (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:31:52 -0500 Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.43]:42172 "EHLO mta03-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265133AbTLFMbv (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Dec 2003 07:31:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD1CC36.6090601@ntlworld.com> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:31:50 +0000 From: Matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.4-6 StumbleUpon/1.87 X-Accept-Language: en, en-gb, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: torvalds@osdl.org CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus, your explanation of the whole copyright law and licenses is probably the best non-technical (ie non lawyer) explanation I have ever read. You guys over at OSDL must have a few good lawyers at your disposal :) Thank you very much for your input. Maybe someone should post a flow diagram, some use cases or something similarly programmish so the non english speaking of us can understand it better. libcopyright.so / liblicense.so / libcontract.so anyone? :) Matt