Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:34:36 +0200 (CEST) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux |
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> >You can not go after people for patches. > > Hi, > > >there is no GPL issue. Upon Microsoft's adpotion of the model they will > > of course you can. Just don't release a patch but grab the driver > you're patching against (which is GPL), add your modifications and > release your driver with full task file access as a complete package > (including the full .c and .h files) under GPL which is compilant with > the available license. I think you can even do this with a patch. But > then again it is your call to add or name a license. > > It is your code. You can put it under every license you want. You can > even put it under the "no white male over 28 years and left handed is > allowed to use this code unless he types it into the keyboard with > only his left hand and the right hand tied behind his back" > license. If is, after all, _YOUR WORK_ and you can choose to license > it in every way that you want. > > There are even countries (like Germany) where you CAN'T give up your > copyright and put things into public domain. There is no such thing as > public domain here. You _always_ keep a certain copyright until > someone else assumes responsibility. It is for sueing people over > here. :-) > > >Linux rejected the code because it does not understand nor does anyone > >have the desire to learn what it does. Since it is not in the kernel > > Neither "Linux" rejected your code (may be Linu_s_ did) nor was it > rejected because no one understood it (you have a big ego to say > that. I would think that most of the developers here are able to > understand what your code does. There is no real magic in it) but > because there is an effort to stabilize and release 2.4. And, as Alan > said, sometimes things just miss deadlines. You don't keep introducing > new variables if you want to stabilize things. The existing IDE driver > works fine for normal operations so it was kept. I would bet much that > your IDE driver will be one of the first things included once 2.5 is > opened up. > > Until then, nothing stops you from releasing patches against official > 2.2 and 2.4 releases. I'm sure that many people will use it and SuSE > will put it into its kernel (they put everything they can find on the > net into their kernel :-) ). I will use it as I really enjoy the new > features for IDE under 2.2. But not on my business-critical machines > but on my Workstation and my machine at home. > > >be years ahead of Linux. FreeBSD does something similar and I expect them > >to soon to begin laughing at us for being stupid. > > Andre, it took me a while to realize that the best thing to cope with > "FreeBSD will laugh at us" to look onto the installed server and user > base and then to realize that BSD was years before Linux and failed > where Linux succeeded. And Linux did not succeed because it was aimed > "at the server market" or "at the end user" but because there is a > bunch of people _that_ _do_ _not_ _care_ _at_ _all_ about the > "marketability" of a feature but for the correct solution. As long as > decisions in the kernel are made because of good and bad taste, I'm > not at all afraid for Linux. > > "They" came to Linux. Not vice versa. And "they" did not come just > because Linux is good. But because the alternatives are worse. And are > not improving. Just ask yourself why there was no such rave about the > release of the 4.4BSD code, the first FreeBSD and the first OpenBSD > release. It is not because their code is bad. But they have no cute > mascot as Tux and no all-famous benevolent dictator from Finland. :-) > > Regards > Henning > > > > >
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