On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:40 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Ben Nizette wrote:
[...]
> > Question to the world here: Distros make, as a matter of course, a
> > series of modifications to the Linux Kernel so that their modules or
> > features work. What stops VJ making a patchset which effectively
> > s/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/g 's the kernel source then
> > distributing that under the GPL? He then supplies his un-GPL'd modules
Nothing. But it is pointless since that doesn't un-GPL source code.
[...]
> Rhetorical question: what stops me from taking somebody's copyrighted
> work, stripping the copyrights or falsely claiming to have a license
> to redistribute it, then selling it?
No one.
But that doesn't make the action legal or change the copyright/authors
rights in anyway (at least in the more civilized parts of the world).
Bernd
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