From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: Petr Titera <P.Titera@century.cz>
Cc: Robert Lowery <rlowery@optusnet.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Belkin Bluetooth Access Point GPL violation
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:17:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F54E9F.5090800@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40F021B8.1@century.cz>
Petr Titera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've try to look at firware image and it really seems that they do
> not use modules in kernel and that bluetooth drivers are compiled in. So it
> really seems that they should either distribute source for their stack
> or do not distribute it at all.
>
Even if they did use modules, the module interface is not necessarily a
GPL barrier. The fact that the unit becomes useless if you remove the
kernel or the bluetooth drivers means that it's a complete work and not
merely an aggregate.
I don't understand why companies think they can get away with this kind
of intellectual property theft.
I also don't understand why they don't use BSD instead. They wouldn't
have ANY of these problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-14 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-10 9:20 Re: [OT] Belkin Bluetooth Access Point GPL violation Robert Lowery
2004-07-10 17:04 ` Petr Titera
2004-07-14 15:17 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
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2004-07-11 6:08 Robert Lowery
2004-07-11 7:21 ` Jeff Woods
2004-07-10 0:34 Robert Lowery
2004-07-10 8:38 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-07-20 1:15 ` Kyle Moffett
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