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

From: Larry McVoy
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 09:18:00 EST


On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:40:37AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> This is not about whether a licence _can_ demand this. We know it can --
> it can demand the ritual sacrifice of your first-born, and all that
> means is that if you don't agree, you don't get to use the software in
> question??.

No, that's the point you have been missing all along. Any unenforceable
clause is null and void. Read section 7 of the GPL and a little law.
You can't enforce unenforceable clauses by revoking the license.
--
---
Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/