From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE4789D for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 07:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pokefinder.org (sauhun.de [89.238.76.85]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EC1587 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2016 07:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 09:48:54 +0200 From: Wolfram Sang To: James Bottomley Message-ID: <20160828074854.GA2383@katana> References: <20160824130832.GA28564@kroah.com> <1472052583.61594.577.camel@infradead.org> <20160824174724.GE30853@kroah.com> <20160824205011.GA31615@ebb.org> <20160824215447.GA5368@kroah.com> <20160825040619.GA32072@ebb.org> <20160826005914.GA12749@kroah.com> <1472212180.5189.28.camel@HansenPartnership.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1472212180.5189.28.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" , Linus Torvalds , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > everyone just gets why. Take a certain Russian company as an example.=20 > When I joined, that company really fancied permissive licences.=20 > However, it also feared releasing code that its competition would then > use against it in the market. The give back clause of the GPL has a > solid answer to this (your competition has to show you the code they > would compete with you on), Here is the core question of consequences for non-compliance again: What if the competition doesn't want to show the code? Were you able to advertise a "don't sue" approach to that company? --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXwpdmAAoJEBQN5MwUoCm2UEwQAJw0OrNIVE8rGmP9mzNRmRJ3 RYHEg1xo/DjV6SINhY7zsPHigqCulPKjRBVGEQ4sYHFRh7GyRhsP/Js5WOx85hMH syDwRhzZR3i0pcSqNg/u78wLzqFjheI9H8UxKcOdPkADgL7Ud9p51n5ySXVIzf3Q I4sv4wXMD0yqmYRUOA9PyjxhNSBTkRIhs04LTQkWnpooiDUeJG9XJHJkHmnSDcCq ncxxRhprnDIOO5rxQAq4E/m+VJgrbHrvUIiuO3A1kyJftzHDgdivWvwtrSOEprhg CpeBV+H9i7tD3ZLU8T8A/I22t6RbqPqYrG+AD8PC9zRnIPnOnajzJz0VZaqIgHsn OqEVC4VTfIzXURY9As+d54dhxgNuh8le3dq3SOvWRdi5g3e6dyJwVbDyBJIHgGoJ mjnjhQhKR/OjKWfE08UINYpdC7sBUN2RE40tlRSKbd3G8Z0Yl6NGRvKrMZd1UeuP nJYheYMDW5MnaXMG+BoEDbi8aLI6WC3kH3tVAO21MsXBvHo2FcQbcIzNT+vrpFPj nR4Z1keRp+ywjTG1terziJ7cEYHdSHp0PDVIcrJKaWpqo6ZmwP5hFnYFuCwngJI7 61bYq1jK5ouh0vua0Jf/spADeThntOi0ZYeZ/OBbq14xa/2GhQalyvrmHbmF2PmK a6TZiKPP51AUVjwVKXKS =p8Kj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE--