Hi Lawrence, On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> So either your work is truely not derivative of the kernel (which I find >> wildly improbable) or you have a problem and since you are aware >> of the complaints publically I guess probably a triple damages sized >> problem. But that's one for your lawyers and whatever opinion they >> have on the subject. > > Hi Alan and others, > > I've been advising Rising Tide Systems (RTS) in this matter. Please let me > reassure you that RTS is acting on advice of counsel. It's nice to hear from legal counsel on this matter. I don't think that the *usage* of the kernel APIs is the biggest issue here. There are many examples where proprietary code uses these APIs and is not violating the GPL. As I see it, one of the main concerns is because the proprietary and in-kernel target systems are, from what I understand, quite similar, there is the possibility that GPL licensed contributions to the in-kernel target code may have "leaked" into to the proprietary code. That said, proving this is a very difficult problem, but the question must still be asked: Can Rising Tide Systems assure us that there is no GPL licensed code within their proprietary target code? Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
