Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

[ Cc: trimmed again ]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 07:11, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >Jeff,
> > can you plkease stop Cc'ing me on this thread?
> 
> Linus,
[...]
> >No, nobody I know (certainly not me) is willing to re-license Linux under 
> >anything else than the GPL. Quite frankly, I suspect you'll have an easier 
> >time just rewriting the whole thing.
> >
> I won't be "re-writing" anything.  I've written something different that 
> takes all the Linux device drivers,
> application layer, and a handful of file systems, and drops out most of 
> the core of Linux, and these
> drivers I suspect will get rewritten over time.  Since it's all open 
> source anyway, doesn't really matter.

Yup. And whatever you create will be GPLed completely anyway.

> >And no, the only offer from SCO I'm interested in is a public apology from
> >Darl McSwine.  Their made-up stories about copyright ownership weren't
> >really that amusing a year ago, and now they're boring and stale.
> >
> Linus, you took code from these companies without bothering to check if 

Which is the prime question and has not yet been proved (not even in the
juristical meaning, let alone in the technical/mathematical) - neither
by you nor by SCO or anyone else. Even worse SCO is telling exactly that
since months (without providing detailed or even any reasonable
explanations that hold why one should believe in these words) and all
supporting (so-called) "facts" from SCO vanished and did not proove
anything.
BTW this lead to a verdict in Germany that disallows all of these claims
by SCO.

[ all of the propaganda removed ]

	Bernd, not believing your and/or SCOs empty claims
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