Humberto Massa wrote: [snip] > >> It's a compilation work. > > > > Fine. The copyright for the compilation lies by the one who did the > > compilation. This is Linus Torvalds, I guess. > > > > Thiemo > > not here in BR. Or at least not in the way you _seem_ to be implying.
I referred only to the inclusion of some firmware in the kernel. [snip: lengthy explanation] > Easy, huh? extrapolate for ten+ years of patching and aggregating and > you'll get where we are today. The firmware typically wasn't patched, and nothing is derived from it. Thiemo