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Hi! > > The reason a clause such as that will work is that people have no natural > > right to redistribute Linux.> > Right. Any copyright license will basically say> > "You can distribute this assuming you do so-and-so" > > and a contract can actually extend on that and also limit you in other > ways than just distribution, ie you can sat > > "You can buy this, but you cannot legally benchmark it" > > However, none of that actually extends your "derived work" in any way. You are right, of course, but you can affect derived work by stuff such as: You may not copy Linux. As a special exception, you may copy/distribute Linux if you never copied Tolstoy before. That would probably work.... in cases like Tivo anyway. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - 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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