Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:09:23 +0200 (CEST) | From | Martin Diehl <> | Subject | Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:45:32AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > This all boils down to the question of whether fimware is code or not. > > No, that's exactly the political discussion we don't want to discuss here. > The keyspan case is worse where a file used in the kernel built has a > GPL-incompatible license.
From a technical point of view I'm just wondering how it comes this firmware is derived from the Linux kernel? I mean this is running on an 8-bit microcontroller with some 4KiB of memory so it sounds pretty much impossible to me.
If anybody would have a point calling this a derived work from Linux, I'd be very concerned about SCO might have a point with their claims wrt. Linux being derived from their IP =(:-(
From the maintenance POV of course it would be much better not to have it aggregated with the kernel sources.
SCNR Martin
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