Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Fri Oct 08 2004 - 03:54:59 EST


On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 20:40 -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Oct 07, 2004 at 01:21:44PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > This offer must be accepted by **ALL** copyright holders and
> > this snapshot will subsequently convert the GPL license into
> > a BSD style license for the code.
>
> I'm suppose you have a plan to ask Leonard Zubkoff and
> doubtless others to relicense their work?

Obviously yes. And they seem to have a list of the ten of thousands of
Copyright/authors' rights ("Urheberrecht" as in Austria, Germany and
probably some other countries) with information to which parts of the
kernel they actually (may) have rights on.

Bernd
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