Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-06 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:34:49 +0100 schrieb Christer Weinigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I also think that my customers, that decided to keep their kernel > modules binary only, made a big mistake and have told them so. But I > still think it's better for the Linux community to be a bit soft on > su

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-07 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:20:26 +1030 schrieb David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > Am Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:01:24 +1030 > > schrieb David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>> It is not legally meaningless if copyright holder

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-07 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:01:24 +1030 schrieb David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It is not legally meaningless if copyright holders publicly state > > how they interpret the license and what they consider a license > > violation. > > Copyright-holders' opinions mean nothing. In the particular

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-02-07 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:49:42 +1030 schrieb David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > If somebody prefers an other OS for license reasons only, let them. > > You cannot have open source software without open source license. > > If a company ch