Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-18 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Repeating, trying to summarize: the current version of the Linux > kernel is a derivative work of its earlier versions, and an anthology > work of its separated autonomous parts. Those parts, in principle, > would be each and every patch that entered th

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-18 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, Raul. The law. USC17, BR copyright law, and probably every > copyright law following the Geneva convention *does* such a > distinction. BR copyright law specifically separates the rights of > derivative works from the rights of a collective (antholo

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-18 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The firmware typically wasn't patched, and nothing is derived from it. Isn't the kernel containing the firmware derivative of it? If not, why can't I put some GPL-incompatible x86 code into the kernel, load it into a device in my system -- the main memo

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-06-17 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A little Google shows that Yggdrasil has made such an argument: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00130.html > > Unfortunately for Mr. Richter, Linux does not seem to contain any > copyright notices attributable to him or Yggdrasil before