Adam J. Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You might wonder why am I also concerned about distribution > of the kernel _sources_. First of all, I believe that there may be a > contributory infringement problem with machinations (my word) where > the end result is the delivery of a work whose distribution is > forbidden by copyright. In the case of the stock kernel, the build > process does this for the keyspan.o file. Secondly, I think there may > be an indirect or contributory infringement issue from distributing > such kernel sources with the reasonable expectation that many > recipients will compile and unknowingly illegally copy keyspan.o > as a result.
Debian could patch the source so that the offending drivers are not built by default and the documentation shown by make xconfig states ALL IN CAPITALS that it would be a copyright violation to distribute the binary if you include that driver (include a URL for more detailed information and possible updates). Would that solve the problem? If not, how about #error If you wish to compile this driver please read linux/... (Of course there's still the other problem of the kernel not being DFSG-free.) Edmund
