From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265762AbTF3GZm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:25:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265767AbTF3GZm (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:25:42 -0400 Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.202]:51873 "EHLO TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265762AbTF3GZk (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:25:40 -0400 To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Alan Cox , Svein Ove Aas , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL References: Reply-To: Miles Bader System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop From: Miles Bader Date: 30 Jun 2003 15:39:09 +0900 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andre Hedrick writes: > I know first hand that I can not take "RAIDZONE" to court yet to sue for > GPL violation to get the code back into the community and monetary > damages, until I fully file a registered copyright and not the halfassed > crap of just sticking you name and email address in a file. > > GPL wins great. > 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. Even if you are right about the need to register (I have no idea, though everyone else seems to say otherwise), this seems like a bizarre conclusion. If the problem is the lack of proper copyright registration, how would changing the license make the least bit of difference? -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]