Re: [gentoo-user] Why is no one discussing this anymore?

On Thursday, 27 December 2018 20:32:29 GMT vsnsdua...@memeware.net wrote: > Why is no one discussing this anymore. Welcome to my kill file. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

Apologize for the follow up: Not being able to rescind the license is like saying someone who was lent a lawnmower gets to keep it indefinitely with no contest because the person who lent it can't rescind the grant to the lawnmower. On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 9:39 PM R0b0t1 wrote: > > This was cros

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

This was cross posted so many places I have to preface: I got here from the Gentoo list. If this only makes it to the crossposter forward or follow up on the information as you see fit. The post is crass but still has technical merit. More importantly he seems to be right, the idea that the grante

[gentoo-user] Why is no one discussing this anymore?

Why is no one discussing this anymore. It's like you just accepted the "NU UH U WRONG" proclamation from programmers. Are you idiots aware that programmers DO NOT KNOW THE LAW simply by virtue of being "smarts"? Are you idiots aware that I am a lawyer, I have studied the law, and I do know

[gentoo-user] Re: Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

(2) ... (I am not going to go over the legal mistakes you've made, because of (1))... I have not made legal mistakes, pompous programmer asshole*. A gratuitous license, absent an attached interest, is revocable at will. This goes for GPLv2 as used by linux, just as it goes for the BSD license