Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h | Date | Tue, 29 May 2001 01:24:58 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > AFAICS, the firmware is just a file served up to the device as needed > > - no more a derivative work from the kernel than my homepage is a > > derivative work of Apache. > > Indeed. But if you compiled your home page, linked it into Emacs to > display on startup, and distributed the binary, the _combination_ > "Emacs+homepage" binary would be a derived work, and you'd be required > to offer source for both parts.
In which case GNU Emacs violates the GPL by containing a copy of COPYING which is more restricted than the GPL. After all it displays copying on a hotkey combination
Is that really what you are trying to say ??
Alan
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