Alan, On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> It isn't "policy" its called copyright law. I know that I said I'd shut up, but I missed in TRIPS where it said that symbols must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL... Could you point that out? (Just kidding.) > You don't seem to understand copyright law either. The GPL like all > copyright licenses deals with the right to make copies and to create and > control derivative works. It's not "defeated" by four lines of code. The 3 or 4 lines of code that I wrote as an original expression before the patch was submitted. > Is that a confession ;) No, just a declaration: the code in question was released under GPL Version 2. > Copyright is not about novelty, you have it confused with the > theoretical (not actual) role of patents. Wrong kind of intellectual > monopoly right. Yes, perhaps I should have said "original" instead of "novel". The patch is not "original" as it was predated by equivalent (machine translatable) original expressions. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
