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SubjectRe: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible
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Adam J. Richter writes:

> I believe that distribution of Linux kernel binaries that
> compile in this firmware is direct copyright infringment, and
> that distribution of Linux kernel modules that compile in
> this firmware is contributory copyright infringement (to the direct
> infringmenet that occurs when the image is created in RAM, and
> there are US court cases that say that copying into RAM is copying
> for the purposes of copyright).
>
> The United States Copyright Office has issued a copyright
> registration to Yggdrasil Computing for some software in the Linux
> USB serial drivers. Yggdrasil Computing has never given permission
> for distribution of GPL-incompatible firmware with that software.

The first "official" version of Linux that included USB serial code
that mentioned you (Adam Richter and/or Yggdrasil) was 2.4. That same
version included the same binary firmware you complained about in
2001, and the changelog in usbserial.c makes it clear that *at least*
the WhiteHEAT firmware was already present when you contributed your
code.

Would you explain why your claim of copyright infringement is not
estopped by the pre-existing condition of firmware being present?

Michael Poole
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