On 2/15/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I assume ATI's lawyers think its legal, as it's been a year and a half since I first brought this questionable act to their attention.
Lawyers don't think X is legal.. that's not how lawyers think. If ATI's lawyers have advised ATI on this at all, and ATI has taken their lawyers' advice, then the advice would have been: we believe the risk of liability is acceptable. The only reason I can imagine why a lawyer would advise a client that it is an acceptable risk to do something legally questionable with the linux kernel is that so few kernel people have been sued for, or given notice of, an infringement. If any of the kernel developers, other than Harald Welte, are enforcing their copyright, they don't tend to publicize it. I, personally, don't know why anyone who owned copyright on any GPL software and had no desire to enforce that copyright, would not offer to assign their copyright to the FSF so they can defend it.. but I imagine people have their reasons. Trent - 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/
