Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API

Alan,

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Alan Cox wrote:

It isn't "policy" its called copyright law.

I know that I said I'd shut up, but I missed in TRIPS where it said
that symbols must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL...  Could you point that out?
(Just kidding.)

You don't seem to understand copyright law either. The GPL like all
copyright licenses deals with the right to make copies and to create and
control derivative works. It's not "defeated" by four lines of code.

The 3 or 4 lines of code that I wrote as an original expression before
the patch was submitted.

Is that a confession ;)

No, just a declaration: the code in question was released under GPL
Version 2.

Copyright is not about novelty, you have it confused with the
theoretical (not actual) role of patents. Wrong kind of intellectual
monopoly right.

Yes, perhaps I should have said "original" instead of "novel".  The patch
is not "original" as it was predated by equivalent (machine translatable)
original expressions.