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Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis)
Wed Jun 19 17:24:09 1996
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:50:40 -0400
To: loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Martin von Loewis)
From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
>In article <199606181815.OAA03671@etinc.com> you write:
>>It doesnt matter what he says, you cant license against add-ons. You can
>>put whatever you want in the document, but you cant enforce it so its
>>meaningless. You dont own the computer by running an O/S...you can
>>run anything on the computer you want that is compatible regardless of
>>whether Linus says you can or not. Even if you linked binaries directly
>>with the core kernel code itself. A licensor only has rights over their
>>own code.
>
>Exactly. If you link with the kernel code itself, and then *distribute*
>the resulting kernel, you clearly distribute code that you don't own,
>so the owner of that code can apply the license (GPL), which states that
>you have to provide full source for the modifications as well.
Yes, but the end user does the linking....we dont distribute kernels. The
fact that the code that we provide gets linked in is not a violation nor can
it be.
Dennis
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