Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:52:00 +0100 | From | Ian Stirling <> | Subject | Re: GPL Violation? |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 00:45 +0100, Ian Stirling wrote: >> With the appropriate disclaimers on the box, it cannot function >> incorrectly, as you will know that the thumb-print reader won't >> work if you upgrade the kernel, and if you intend to do so, >> you don't buy. > > As far as I can tell, the GPL does not contain the text "if you are > shipping a commercial product don't really want to comply with this > licence, you can just put a disclaimer on the box of your product and > that's OK instead".
Sorry, I was tired, and misread that you were making the 'not merely an archive' point as an argument for why the module was a derived work, which makes little sense. - 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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