From: James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@ee.oulu.fi>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:43:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417A6008.7080606@andrew.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0410202240360.19684@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
>
>
>>On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:38:03AM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On a side note, the GPL buyout previously offered has been modified. We
>>>will be contacting individual contributors and negotiating with each
>>>copyright holder for the code we wish to convert on a case by case basis.
>>>
>>>
>>arch/m68k/sun3/leds.c is available (dual BSD/GPL) for the price of two beers
>>(I believe nobody else has touched it so it should be all mine).
>>
>>The other files of the port to that very fine architecture are largely done
>>by other people, so unfortunately I can't relicense those.
>>
>>
>
>Aarghl, a shameless m68k hacker!
>
>And I thought we all did it for The Big Fun(tm), and cannot be bought ;-)
>
>
With leds.c, that's 13 lines down and only 5982412 more to go at my
count. At a rate of one per day it'll only take him 1260 years to
finish his acquisition (dependent on 63 more US copyright extension acts
of course). It'll also take 920 thousand beers, though Germans might
demand a better rate than 54ml per line of code (2 * 12 US fluid oz / 13
lines).
In all seriousness, this is all pretty obvious given SCO's past actions
to inflate their stock. Jeff wants us to remove the code in a "good
faith effort", and then SCO would simply turn around and say "See, the
Linux people are acting guilty by removing all that code! We need past
damages now!". Anything you do, or do not do, is spun by them as an
admission. Even the press has tired of this by now, thankfully. Jeff
it seems, has not.
Now if only we could get him to leave us alone for 1260 years...
- Jim
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2004-10-18 22:45 Linux v2.6.9 Linus Torvalds
2004-10-18 23:27 ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2004-10-19 2:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-10-19 16:55 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-19 14:36 ` Linux v2.6.9... (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-10-19 16:18 ` Matthew Dharm
2004-10-19 16:49 ` viro
2004-10-19 21:37 ` John Cherry
2004-10-20 22:11 ` John Cherry
2004-10-20 22:41 ` viro
2004-10-21 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 0:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21 0:44 ` viro
2004-10-21 1:55 ` viro
2004-10-21 1:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21 2:24 ` viro
2004-10-21 2:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21 4:35 ` viro
2004-10-21 8:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-20 22:50 ` Dave Jones
2004-10-19 17:38 ` Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 19:13 ` Russell King
2004-10-19 19:04 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 19:24 ` Kurt Wall
2004-10-19 19:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-19 20:39 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-20 0:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 5:21 ` Matt Mackall
2004-10-19 19:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2004-10-19 19:10 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 19:30 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-19 19:05 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:14 ` Diego Calleja
2004-10-19 19:41 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-20 8:27 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-20 8:45 ` Jens Axboe
2004-10-19 19:47 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-19 19:38 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-19 20:15 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 23:22 ` Tonnerre
2004-10-19 19:45 ` Ross Biro
2004-10-19 19:36 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 19:54 ` David Johnson
2004-10-19 19:55 ` viro
2004-10-19 19:25 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 20:38 ` Dax Kelson
2004-10-19 20:09 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 22:16 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-19 22:57 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-19 22:27 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2004-10-20 19:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-20 1:15 ` Horst von Brand
2004-10-20 1:16 ` Bastiaan Spandaw
2004-10-20 19:35 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-20 3:45 ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-20 4:18 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 4:41 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-20 11:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-29 12:12 ` Semaphore assembly-code bug linux-os
2004-10-29 14:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 15:11 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-29 18:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 18:35 ` Richard Henderson
2004-10-29 16:06 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-10-29 17:08 ` linux-os
2004-10-29 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 18:39 ` linux-os
2004-10-29 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-01 1:31 ` linux-os
2004-11-01 5:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-01 20:23 ` dean gaudet
2004-11-01 20:52 ` linux-os
2004-11-01 21:23 ` dean gaudet
2004-11-01 22:22 ` linux-os
2004-11-01 21:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-01 21:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-02 15:02 ` linux-os
2004-11-02 16:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-02 16:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-02 16:51 ` linux-os
2004-11-01 22:16 ` linux-os
2004-11-01 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-01 23:14 ` linux-os
2004-11-01 23:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-03 1:52 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-03 21:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-02 6:37 ` Chris Friesen
2004-10-29 18:58 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-10-29 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 19:40 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2004-10-29 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 22:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-29 23:50 ` dean gaudet
2004-10-30 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 23:37 ` dean gaudet
2004-10-29 17:22 ` linux-os
2004-10-29 17:55 ` Richard Henderson
2004-10-29 18:17 ` linux-os
2004-10-29 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-30 3:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-29 19:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 21:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-29 17:57 ` Richard Henderson
2004-10-29 18:37 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-10-20 5:58 ` Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout John Alvord
2004-10-20 14:42 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-21 23:59 ` Kelledin
2004-10-22 8:46 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-22 9:07 ` David Weinehall
2004-10-22 16:15 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 17:52 ` Al Viro
2004-10-22 17:22 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 19:37 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 20:46 ` Grahame White
2004-10-22 20:58 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-22 21:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-22 21:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-23 12:33 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-24 14:15 ` Kai Henningsen
2004-10-27 1:45 ` Horst von Brand
2004-10-24 11:00 ` Matthias Andree
2004-10-24 14:13 ` Kai Henningsen
2004-10-25 18:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-20 19:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-19 21:02 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-19 20:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 6:54 ` Erik Andersen
2004-10-22 16:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-19 21:17 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-20 20:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-23 13:43 ` James Bruce [this message]
2004-10-19 21:26 ` Ramón Rey Vicente
2004-10-19 22:52 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-20 23:43 ` Eric Bambach
2004-10-20 23:48 ` Eric Bambach
2004-10-20 23:59 ` Hua Zhong
2004-10-21 0:13 ` Russell Miller
2004-10-21 0:18 ` Adam Heath
2004-10-21 10:16 ` Horst von Brand
2004-10-22 8:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-22 16:15 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 0:14 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-22 23:46 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 0:57 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 4:42 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 6:32 ` Nick Piggin
[not found] ` <20041023064538.GA7866@galt.devicelogics.com>
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2004-10-23 10:11 ` Gene Heskett
2004-10-23 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-24 2:48 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-10-24 5:11 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-24 11:14 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-24 11:50 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-24 15:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-24 15:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-31 23:14 ` Jan 'JaSan' Sarenik
2004-10-24 2:11 ` Buddy Lucas
2004-10-23 0:38 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-23 0:07 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 1:06 ` Lee Revell
2004-10-21 2:41 ` Linux v2.6.9 (Strange tty problem?) Paul
2004-10-21 9:07 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 12:39 ` Russell King
2004-10-21 13:20 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-21 15:37 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-21 17:00 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-21 15:47 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-21 18:12 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-31 21:11 ` Linux v2.6.9 dies when starting X on radeon 9200 SE PCI Helge Hafting
2004-10-22 19:38 Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 21:31 brian wheeler
2004-10-22 21:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 23:03 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-22 22:58 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-22 23:27 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 13:30 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-24 11:10 ` Matthias Andree
2004-10-23 0:24 ` David Schwartz
2004-10-23 0:48 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 0:30 ` Jon Masters
2004-10-23 0:02 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-10-23 1:18 ` Diego Calleja
2004-10-23 8:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-23 16:13 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-10-23 12:59 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-10-24 11:04 ` Matthias Andree
2004-10-24 8:45 Shawn Starr
2004-10-24 19:38 Xose Vazquez Perez
2004-11-04 16:01 Linux-2.6.9 won't allow a write to a NTFS file-system linux-os
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2004-11-04 17:09 ` linux-os
2004-11-04 17:40 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-11-04 17:46 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-11-04 22:17 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-11-04 22:18 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-11-04 22:38 ` linux-os
2004-11-05 14:43 ` Rahul Karnik
2004-11-05 1:46 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-05 12:41 ` linux-os
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2004-12-02 4:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-02 6:39 ` Norbert van Nobelen
2004-12-02 8:24 ` James Bruce
2004-12-02 20:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-12-03 2:23 ` David Schwartz
2004-12-02 8:33 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-12-02 10:46 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-12-02 10:56 ` Pawel Sikora
2004-12-13 15:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-13 21:08 ` J.A. Magallon
2004-12-16 0:57 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-16 2:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-16 13:23 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-16 15:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-12-16 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-16 20:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-16 20:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-16 21:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-02 10:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-05 0:23 ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-05 6:21 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-12-05 22:43 ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-06 17:27 ` linux-os
2004-12-06 18:52 ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-02 10:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-12-11 8:52 ` Gábor Lénárt
2004-12-17 1:33 [Coverity] Untrusted user data in kernel Bryan Fulton
2004-12-17 5:15 ` James Morris
2004-12-17 5:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-17 6:45 ` James Morris
2004-12-17 13:18 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-17 19:16 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-17 19:34 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-17 19:30 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-17 15:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-17 16:11 ` linux-os
2004-12-17 16:31 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-12-17 18:37 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-17 19:18 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-17 19:30 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-12-17 19:39 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-18 1:42 ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-17 15:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-17 15:38 ` James Morris
2005-01-05 12:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-05 15:09 ` Jan Harkes
2005-01-05 23:17 ` Nathan Scott
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2005-01-06 9:18 ` Jan Kasprzak
2005-01-06 14:48 ` Paulo Marques
2005-01-06 16:29 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-07 21:49 ` [PATCH 2.4.29-pre3-bk4] fs/coda " Jan Harkes
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