Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 7 Jun 2001 19:10:55 +0100 (BST)


> > And I will never in my lifetime allow such a facility to be added to
> > the Linux kernel.
>
> Who's to say you will always own the stack in the Linux kernel, or
> have the right to make such a statement?

Its called being a copyright holder. Or better known as 'having done much of
the work you intend to freeload onto'

> And if as Joe User I don't want Linux TCP, but Joe's TCP, they can't
> do that (in a supportable way)? Are you saying Linux is, "do it my
> way, or it's the highway"?

No. The GPL says do it the free way, any vendor, any author, but free. It
doesnt say 'One snowboard nutter in california'. Very different to the MS way

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