On Dec 14, 2006, "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FREE implies a transfer of ownsership It's about freedom, not price. And even then, it's the license that has not cost, not the copyright. > and you also have to contend with the Doctrine of Estoppel. i.e. if > someone has been using the code for over two years, and you have not > brought a cause of action, you are BARRED from doing so under the > Doctrine of Estoppel and statute of limitations. Sure, but we're not necessarily talking about code that is two years old. We're talking about future releases. Then, if someone interfaces with code that was already there before, they might claim they're still entitled to do so. But if it's new code they interface with, or new code they wrote after this clarification is published, would they still be entitled to estoppel? FWIW, IANAL. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
