On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:18:32PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > 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. Don't be absurd. Any resulting binary is obviously derived from both. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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