On Thursday February 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2/15/07, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [..] then it is less clear what people believe > > Another area where it is less clear what people believe is if you are > distributing the module separately to the kernel, but, as I understand > it, vj says he is not. > > > But of course the person who's opinion really counts is the judge. > > The judge's opinion only counts if you actually get to court and > manage to put up a legal defense. > > > So you need to get legal advice. > > Or, ya know, you could take the moral/ethical advice that you're being > a worm and stop now.
I don't think we do ourselves any favours by calling people names.... And as I understand it, an important principle in out community is freedom. If vj wants to take a particular moral/ethical stance, then he should be free to do that. Of course he will have to live with any consequences, as do we all. He (or maybe she? I don't know but English is forcing me to use gender-specific pronouns) or his company sees a business risk in open sourcing their code. They now see a legal risk it not doing so. They get to choose how to respond. This list is a great place to seek technical advice on the different options. It is not such a good place to get business or legal advice. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
