On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Craig Dickson wrote:
> If the source code itself somehow becomes illegal, or if Alan can talk
> Linus into placing a geographical restriction on the distribution of
> Linux (which, as the trademark and copyright owner, would be within his
> rights), then the changelog issue will be moot.
Linus cannot do that, since he doesn't own the copyright on the parts written
by others.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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