Thomas Hertweck schrieb: > [some good points] > > In order to learn more about it, I have recently asked to provide the > references for some judgements that were made at German courts and that > were mentioned in an email here. But, as expected, when you ask for > details and when you try to figure out whether these judgements really > concern the questions that have been discussed on this list, then > usually you get no answer. Don't take everything for granted, we should > sometimes also dare to ask the detailed and unpopular questions - > although some people don't like it.
thats not true. as I was the one that wrote about that I've also ansered. as I wrote already, there was an article in one of the papers "c't" from heise. I read about it in the year 2004 and as I don't have an archive about the old ones, I can't tell you exactly the number of the paper. but I have also written about an act between some kernel maintainer against a hardware vendor ( or to be more clear: a router vendor ) that has used code from iptable in his software. in that case the german court agreed with the maintainers, and give a clear statemend about the GPL and the german law. if you didn't read that, let me know, I can post the links again. I know that this ( using GPL-licenced code in closed source progarms) isn't the same then linking a ( closed sourced ) driver against a (GLP-licenced) kernel module it shows 2 importend views: - the GPL is accepted at german courts so it is conform to german law - there are ways for the maintainers to get there rights at a (german) court I agree total with you that this all is a "gray zone" as you wrote. and I also agree with a lot of people on this list that there must be a solution for a) the users to don't get in conflict with the licence and make it easy for them to use a driver b) for the maintainer of distros to don't get also in conflict with a licence and to include as mutch drivers at needfull and c) also the kernel maintainer that there get the rights they have. > I think we all agree that open-source drivers are to be preferred and > might be the best solution. However, from my point of view the cheap > propaganda that some people make against closed-source drivers does not > help to solve the problem at all! thats your point of view. I have another one. and others maybe have there owen. to name that views "cheap propaganda" is not realy nice, and with that your owen posts ends to the same: not nice "cheap propaganda" against people that believe more in open sourced drivers and it doesn't solve the problem at all too. > Cheers, > Th. best regards, JBScout aka Thomy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
