Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) | Date | Mon, 12 Aug 2002 01:44:07 +0200 |
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On Monday 12 August 2002 02:46, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 23:56, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > If somebody sues you, you change the algorithm or you just hire a > > > hit-man to whack the stupid git. > > > > Btw, I'm not a lawyer, and I suspect this may not be legally tenable > > advice. Whatever. I refuse to bother with the crap. > > In which case you might as well do the rest of the world a favour and > restrict US usage of Linux in the license file while you are at it. > Unfortunately the USA forces people to deal with this crap. I'd hope SGI > would be decent enough to explicitly state they will license this stuff > freely for GPL use (although having shipping Linux themselves the > question is partly moot as the GPL says they can't impose additional > restrictions)
I do not agree that it is enough to license it for 'GPL' use. If there is a license, it should impose no restrictions that the GPL does not. There is a big distinction. Anything else, and the licensor is sending the message that they reserve the right to enforce against Linux users.
In other words, a license grant has to cover *all* uses of Linux and not just GPL uses.
In my opinion, RedHat has set a bad example by stopping short of promising free use of Ingo's patents for all Linux users. We are entering a difficult time, and such a wrong-footed move simply makes it more difficult.
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