Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:47:34 -0700 | From | "Wichmann, Mats D" <> |
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>> > The kernel's license prohibits >> > distrubiting it in combination with works that have licenses more >> > restrictive than the GPL. >> >> That better be bogus, or else vendors are going to be very upset that >> they can't ship the kernel with, say, trademarked images. For example, >> Mozilla's trademark on their artwork is fairly restrictive, or the >> Mandrake Firewall product (if that's even still around - I don't keep >> up).
Please keep distinct "ship with" in the sense of /inside/ the kernel and "ship with" in the sense of on the same distribution media. The GPL also has explicit wording for the latter (you've already been quoted the words on the former):
"In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License. "
I can't imagine anyone putting the Mozilla logo inside the kernel, but if they do, as mentioned, that's a problem if its license is not GPL.
-- mats
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