Pointless ideology?

Pointless ideology?

Posted Sep 2, 2004 12:10 UTC (Thu) by Fats (subscriber, #14882)
In reply to: Pointless ideology? by bchilds
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

However, I remain confused about the position Linus is taking with respect to these modules. He has the power to declare that they are not allowed because they violate the GPL.

Unfortunately it is not. The only authority to decide if something is against a license like the GPL is a judge. Linus can only tell how he sees that the kernel license has to be interpreted. Then he has to be careful that his comment is not treated as legal advice because from what I heard this can have consequences in the USA.

Also he can't put more restrictions on the license then it is now without the approval of all kernel contributors which is I think an undoable task; certainly not worth the effort.

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