Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

Humberto Massa
2005-04-11T11:53:55Z

David Schwartz wrote:

> > On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:07:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
>
>
> >> The way you stop someone from distributing part of your work is
> >> by arguing that the work they are distributing is a derivative
> >> work of your work and they had no right to *make* it in the first
> >> place. See, for example, Mulcahy v. Cheetah Learning.
>
>
> > Er, that's one way, but not *the* way. I could grant you
> > permission to create derivatives of my work, but not to
> > redistribute them. To stop you from distributing them, I'd argue
> > that you had no right to distribute them--you *did* have the right
> > to make it in the first place.
>
>
> You could do that be means of a contract, but I don't think you could
> it do by means of a copyright license. The problem is that there is
> no right to control the distribution of derivative works for you to
> withhold from me.
Wrong, sorry. Copyright is a *monopoly* on some activities (copy,
distribution of copies, making *and* distribution of derivative works).

HTH,
Massa