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 B51B5486 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49050170 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:51:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Steven Rostedt In-Reply-To: <20160829113526.1081cbc4@gandalf.local.home> Message-ID: References: <20160826193331.GA29084@jra3> <87inunxf14.fsf@ebb.org> <20160827162655.GB27132@kroah.com> <87bn0dnc6f.fsf@ebb.org> <1472348609.2440.37.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20160828042454.GA8742@jeremy-acer> <20160828125542.7oejzcbpeozkrq3k@thunk.org> <20160828154356.GA16414@jeremy-acer> <20160828193656.cbd64qqenmpsbiwp@thunk.org> <20160829113526.1081cbc4@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: James Bottomley , "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: , On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Steven Rostedt wrote: > What I read from you is that you feel that the SFC is too trigger happy > on the legal action side. If SFC were to say they really wont do that, > unless they get permission from the Linux kernel community as a whole, > would that make you feel better about them? I, as well, pretty much agree with most of the things that have been said in the "lawsuits shouldn't be a regular tool to excercise GPL validity, there are a lot of other options which are more useful at the end of the day" tone. However, to be fair -- isn't what you've written above exactly what SFC has been doing? Please correct me if I am wrong, but they are not executing any legal actions "on their own", are they? There always has to be someone from the community coming to them and initiating the trigger actions. Now, if that is seen as a real problem, then a KS session just in between developers / maintainers, to shake out all the possibilities for Mr. Joe Developer in case of having really bad feelings about his code being misused, might be really helpful. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs