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Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Wouldn't "control ... installation" include the keys too? > > IANAL, but I am on the board of an NPO that advocates Free and Open > Source Software, and that NPO has a lawyer (who is VERY familiar with > the GPL). Would it make sense to ask him? After all, that merely means > what one lawyer would say. > Ok, so I did. The gist of it - a very quick analysis said "no, it does not cover the keys". You can now return to your usual debate. More in details, the keys seem like a late addition to the already compiled kernel, have a standalone existance, and are not even code, and can therefor not be considered "deriviative work". -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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