From: "Florian Schirmer" <jolt@tuxbox.org>
To: <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "David Turner" <novalis@fsf.org>,
<andrew@mikl.as>, <rob@nocat.net>
Subject: Re: Linksys/Cisco GPL Violations
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:18:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02b001c38f39$72baabd0$9602010a@jingle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1065793144.24015.274.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com
Hi,
> That is true, according to the GPL, _only_ if the modules are
> distributed as separate works. If they are part of a collective work
> which is based on the kernel (note, not a _derived_ work but a
> _collective_ work) then they must be released under the terms of the
> GPL.
Dont get me wrong. I agreee that there are still issues with the wireless
driver. IMHO binary modules aren't legal at all. I just don't wanted to
start the binary discussion and therefore posted the misleading statement.
Regards,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-10 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-29 18:22 Linksys/Cisco GPL Violations David Turner
2003-10-06 8:29 ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-10 13:09 ` Florian Schirmer
2003-10-10 13:16 ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-10 13:26 ` Florian Schirmer
2003-10-10 13:39 ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-10 14:18 ` Florian Schirmer [this message]
2003-10-10 14:25 ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-11 5:37 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-10-11 6:35 ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-11 7:03 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-10-13 9:40 ` Florian Schirmer
2003-10-10 15:11 ` [Linux-bcom4301-priv] " James Stevenson
2003-10-10 15:29 ` Sasa Ostrouska
2003-10-10 16:36 ` Florian Schirmer
2003-10-10 16:58 ` Luite Stegeman
2003-10-10 15:58 ` Rob Flickenger
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