Who has the rights to claim GPL copyright infringement of linux ??

Hubert Figuiere hub at figuiere.net
Tue Aug 11 06:27:29 CEST 2009


On 08/10/2009 11:50 PM, Craig Whitmore wrote:
> This is my code I could find in this kernel which is very identifable.
> 
> /* reported working by "Craig Whitmore <lennon at igrin.co.nz> */
> /*4*/   { "Quadrant Buster",
>           3, 3, T, F, T, T, 0x7F, 0x80, { SVHS(1), TUNER(2), 3 }, { 1,
> 2, 3 } },
> 
> I supplied that information for that card to work (and it did work) so I
> guess I can "sue them" them for using the kernel on their box without
> following copyright (the GPL kernel)


Unfortunately, this ought to be considered as a non copyrightable
triviality.

IANAL.

Hub



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