On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 13:34 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think that's a somewhat valid argument, although I'm not really sure > whether there is any difference between, say, a Fedora 7 "livecd", and a > router with a cramfs filesystem in rom. > > Both really work the same way, and both really are very much targeted > towards a specific hardware platform.
I'm inclined to agree. And I'd probably suggest that the Fedora 7 'livecd' would be in violation of the GPL if it were to include the binary-only modules, too. Enough people agree with me that we _don't_ in fact include those modules. And other people have been convinced to _stop_ shipping those modules, when once they did. > So I would at least *personally* suggest that people not look into the > license for these kinds of things, and also that you really need to have a > very specific case, and just basically put it in front of a judge. > At some point, *somebody* has to decide in a gray area, and I'm not saying > that a judge is really _technically_ any better really to decide the > issue, but at least he is hopefully _independent_ of both parties, so when > a judge makes an arbitrary decision, the "arbitrariness" is hopefully at > least somewhat "fair". Indeed. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
