Re: kernel 2.6.8 pwc patches and counterpatches

[Thomas Winischhofer]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 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. 

As much as I share your opinion, unfortunately, it's not that simple. 
However, I will get back to that subject as soon as I have time.

Thomas


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