Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:36:30 -0800 |
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> IANAL, but when looking at the "But when you distribute the same > sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the > distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License" of the > GPLv2 I would still consult a lawyer before e.g. selling a laptop with a > closed-source driver loaded through ndiswrapper.
If that were true, you couldn't legally install more than one program on a computer without permission from all the copyright holders without specific license permission.
A "work based on the Program" is the same as a derivative work. A laptop with an assortment of different programs on it is not a work, it is a collection of works.
DS
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