> Perhaps you might read up on unfair trade practices and contract law.
I'm familiar with them to some extent because I have run companies in the past and continue to do so as a sideline to my Red Hat work. I also spend more time than I'd like talking to lawyers about licencing. > The contract (GPL) doesn't prevent me from using GPL work, in fact it > encourages me. Neither can it impose conditions upon original work > authored by a third party. First mistake: The GPL is not a contract it is a license. If the GPL was a contract it could most certainly impose conditions upon original works. Contract law permits to write things like "If you buy the source for this package you agree not to write a competing product for three years even if an origina work". Alan -- 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/
