From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
davids@webmaster.com, erikharrison@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:14:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040617101431.GA29474@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406171201100.7337-100000@notebook.home.mdiehl.de>
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:09:23PM +0200, Martin Diehl wrote:
> >From a technical point of view I'm just wondering how it comes this
> firmware is derived from the Linux kernel? I mean this is running on an
> 8-bit microcontroller with some 4KiB of memory so it sounds pretty much
> impossible to me.
>
> If anybody would have a point calling this a derived work from Linux, I'd
> be very concerned about SCO might have a point with their claims wrt.
> Linux being derived from their IP =(:-(
It doesn't matter and that's not what we're discussing here. There are
whole C source files in the build with a license that doesn't allow
modification. Firmware or not doesn't matter at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-17 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-15 20:57 more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 0:38 ` Eric
2004-06-16 1:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-16 4:11 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-16 20:34 ` Erik Harrison
2004-06-16 20:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 21:21 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-16 22:45 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-16 23:45 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-17 14:09 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-17 18:35 ` David Schwartz
2004-06-17 19:22 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-17 7:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 8:43 ` Oliver Neukum
2004-06-17 8:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 10:09 ` Martin Diehl
2004-06-17 10:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-19 18:29 ` David Woodhouse
2004-06-17 14:04 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-16 22:49 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-18 9:08 ` Adrian Cox
2004-06-18 11:21 ` Kyle Moffett
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-16 23:47 Wichmann, Mats D
2004-06-17 1:18 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-18 6:29 Adam J. Richter
2004-06-17 15:44 ` Michael Poole
2004-06-17 17:09 ` Adam J. Richter
2004-06-17 19:14 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-17 20:51 ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-17 20:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-06-17 21:05 ` mdpoole
2004-06-17 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 21:45 ` Flavio Stanchina
2004-06-17 20:22 ` mdpoole
2004-06-17 18:05 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 19:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 20:22 ` Greg KH
2004-06-17 20:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 20:52 ` Greg KH
2004-06-18 6:56 Adam J. Richter
2004-06-18 11:09 ` mdpoole
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