Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:45:32 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2004 23:21 schrieb David Schwartz: > b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in > whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any > part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third > parties under the terms of this License. > > How can you cause the Linux kernel combined with this firmware to be > licensed under the terms of the GPL? (And, by the way, I think this > prohibits trademark as well, which is very interesting.)
This all boils down to the question of whether fimware is code or not. As this question is extremely unlikely to be resolved on this list and was discussed here several times already, I kindly request that you take this discussion to a legalistic list and confine traffic of this kind on this list to clear and technical issues.
TIA Oliver
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