Re: gens License Check - Non-free

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Michael Poole wrote:

> Raul Miller writes:
> 
>> Because the linux kernel does not represent mere aggregation of one part
>> of the kernel with some other part on some storage volume.
>>
>> It's not a coincidence that the parts of the kernel are there together.
> 
> The usual contention is that having some helper function load the
> firmware is sufficient to resolve the concern.  That suggests to me
> that the parts being together -- at least in that case -- is a matter
> of convenience, not of necessity.  That is what I would use to test
> for "mere aggregation" (when one is not a derivative work of the
> other).

In some of the cases, rewriting the driver to have a helper function load
the firmware is actually a complicated process involving major changes to
the driver to 'detangle' the firmware.  The 'tangled' version doesn't seem
like mere aggregation.

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