RE: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 12:46:22 EST


On Sad, 2003-09-13 at 00:26, David Schwartz wrote:
> > On Gwe, 2003-09-12 at 22:47, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
> Who is sending these letters? Who has no respect for the GPL and seeks to
> add additional restrictions? IMO, these letters are almost as bad as the SCO
> letters. Nobody has any business putting additional licensing restrictions
> on code was placed under the GPL.

Nobody I've talked to (legal folks included) seems to think they are
additional restrictions, merely people enforcing their copyright rights
against folks working as a group to conspire to create a derivative work
prohibited by the GPL.

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