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Re: [AMENDMENT]: Release Etch now, with source-less but legal and freely licensed firmware



On Friday 06 October 2006 02:46, Don Armstrong wrote:
> This is not the case. A trivial counter example is the distribution of
> a binary object which is statically linked to (or otherwise in
> combination forms a derivative work of) a GPLed codebase, where the
> copyright holder of the binary object does not (completely) control
> the copyright of the GPLed codebase.

Note also that this example also falls under my exception of "unless there 
are very clear indications that they or the person accepting the code into 
the kernel have been careless".

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