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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org,
	debian-devel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:51:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040618155113.GD1863@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040618113543.B1892@links.magenta.com>

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:35:43AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> That clause only deals with some anthology works, not all.  It's an
> exception to <<a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or
> any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing
> the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications...>>
> It's pretty clear that the linux kernel is not a mere aggregation of
> works on some volume of storage.

Any chance you guys could come to some kind of consensus on this so I
know what has to be done for the debian package?

Thanks.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-18 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <o0_liB.A.TFG.4fu0AB@murphy>
2004-06-18 13:55 ` How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package? Humberto Massa
2004-06-18 15:35   ` Raul Miller
2004-06-18 15:51     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-06-18 16:50       ` Brian M. Carlson
2004-06-18 17:11         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-19  0:12   ` David Schwartz

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