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Re: Binary Driver Issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (shaggenbunsenburner)
Thu Jun 20 02:02:39 1996
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:54:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: shaggenbunsenburner <shagboy@thecia.net>
Reply-To: shagboy@thecia.net
To: Pedro Roque Marques <roque@di.fc.ul.pt>
cc: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606192226.XAA00770@oberon.di.fc.ul.pt>
On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Pedro Roque Marques wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is this an official statement by ET that some of the products it sells
> cannot be legally used ?
> I'd like this confirmed or denied officially.
HUH!?!? I don't claim to be an English professor, but I really, REALLY
don't see how you could possibly have made that inference from his
statement. Dennis was justifying the legality of his actions, not
trying to pass the burden of legal responsibility to the end user.
shag
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