Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?
Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote:
>> [firmware as mere aggregation]
>>> Kernel copyright holders think otherwise, as do many other people.
[...]
> 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 2000. As I
> cited elsewhere, this is at least FOUR YEARS after firmware was
> included in the kernel, so he cannot fairly claim infringement. He
> should have known that binary firmware existed in the kernel before.
Is this relevant? He contributed code to a GPL'ed project, assuming that
all of the project meets the license requirements. Do you expect every
contributor to check the copyright status of every file in the project?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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