Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Aug 29 2004 - 09:42:54 EST


On Sad, 2004-08-28 at 07:55, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Since you are a lawyer you know what "moral rights" are. And since you
> know what those are, I assume you did the same research about moral
> rights in the Netherlands (the country the PWC work was created) as I
> did and noticed that this issue isn't as black and white as you claim in
> your simplification I quoted above...

The GPL is very careful to explicitly grant rights in the text. There is
a reason for that. Pwc should stay in the kernel.

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