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!
next prev parent 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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