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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove@aas.no>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL
Date: 30 Jun 2003 18:45:57 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buollvj7vai.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10306292353190.5840-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> writes:
> When they tell you they will not open a case on your behalf until a
> registered copyright is in hand, that point real hard.

Ok whatever, but what I don't understand is your comment that:

> GPL loses, maybe better so it can be replaced with OSL and then it gets
> serious because we will have teeth to defend the ideas of open source.

The `copyright registration' requirements, whatever they are, would
seem to apply equally to the GPL and whatever other `OSL' you have, so
why on earth would some court loss related to copyright registration
have any effect on what license people choose?

-miles
-- 
Occam's razor split hairs so well, I bought the whole argument!

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-30  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-28  5:51 Dell vs. GPL Fluke
2003-06-28  6:12 ` Joshua Penix
2003-06-28 15:05   ` Doug McNaught
2003-06-28 15:12     ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-06-28 15:18       ` Doug McNaught
2003-06-28 15:49         ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-29  4:22       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-29 10:33         ` Alan Cox
2003-06-30  4:07           ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30  6:39             ` Miles Bader
2003-06-30  6:56               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30  9:45                 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-07-09 23:28                   ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10  2:48                     ` Miles Bader
2003-07-10 14:41                       ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10 15:05                         ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-10 15:20                           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-10 15:52                             ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-07-10 19:04                           ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10 19:22                             ` OT: " Dana Lacoste
2003-06-30 15:49                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 16:54                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 17:50                     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 18:28                       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 20:43                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 20:44                           ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 21:25                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 21:34                               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01  5:03                             ` vlad
2003-07-01  5:27                               ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 12:50                             ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-30 20:55                           ` Trever L. Adams
2003-06-30 20:44                         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-06-30 20:48                           ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01  5:53                             ` Anders Karlsson
2003-07-01  6:56                               ` jw schultz
2003-07-01  7:21                                 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 15:38                                 ` Trever L. Adams
2003-07-01 13:17                               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-07-01 15:36                               ` vlad
2003-07-01 16:05                                 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-07-01 16:45                                   ` Trever L. Adams
2003-07-01 17:45                                     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-09 23:24                                 ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-01 12:46                           ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-30 17:22             ` Alan Cox
2003-06-30 17:37               ` Andre Hedrick
     [not found]         ` <3BZo.5iM.27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-06-29 14:04           ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-28 18:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-29 17:47   ` Fluke
2003-06-29 17:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-29  4:16 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-29 11:49   ` Fluke
2003-06-29 21:45   ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30  4:01     ` ahorn
2003-06-30  4:10       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30  6:59         ` ahorn
2003-06-30  8:29           ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30  8:29             ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30  8:44               ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30  5:59       ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30  6:57         ` ahorn
2003-06-30  7:39           ` Anders Karlsson
2003-06-30  8:24           ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30  9:02             ` root
2003-06-30  9:17               ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 15:57                 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-30  4:23     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-14 20:35 ` Fluke
2003-06-29 14:24 Ricardo Galli
2003-06-29 19:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 19:58   ` Ricardo Galli
2003-06-29 20:21     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-29 20:42     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 20:57       ` Russell King
2003-06-29 21:21         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-30 23:14       ` David Weinehall
2003-06-29 20:02   ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-06-29 20:54   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307020931260.1400-100000@humbolt.us.dell.com>
2003-07-02 16:25 ` Andre Hedrick
     [not found] <20030715191651.GA6946@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>
2003-07-17  3:15 ` Fluke

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