On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 07:25:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:28:12 +0300 > Pavel Nikulin <nikuli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hold! > > > > Greg, are you trying to put a new addendum to the terms of GPL v2? > > In many parts of the world if you make a promise about not enforcing a > right to take some action (sometimes even an implied one) you cannot then > take that action. > > So if you say "I won't sue you just because you've got a tiny GPL > compliance issue", then in much of the world if you attempt to do so > you'll find you can't. > > I do think it's poorly drafted because it doesn't contain any "unless you > sue us" caveat so you won't find my name on it.
But it does have that caveat: ...with respect to any non-defensive assertion... I discussed that in my FAQ blog post as well. thanks, greg k-h