Joe Wreschnig wrote: [snip] > > What exactly are you trying to proove with the mentioned link? > > People who hold copyrights on the Linux kernel view distribution of the > kernel with proprietary firmware to be a violation of their license. > Period. This is a fact: _Copyright holders of material Debian is > distributing believe we are doing so in violation of the license they > have granted us_. They can believe what they want. But for legal relevance they have to show how exactly the firmware was derived from the rest of the code (or vice versa). If they can't, it is merely a collection of works. [snip] > Debian has a policy of trying to honor the copyright holder's > interpretation of a license, both because we want to avoid lawsuits, and > because (I like to think) we like to be nice to the developers whose > software we distribute. And this should as well respect the interpretation of the copyright holder who put the firmware in his driver, instead of accusing him to breach copyright law without proof. Thiemo
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