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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	davids@webmaster.com, jp@enix.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible GPL infringement in Broadcom-based routers
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 20:39:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099683552.2814.26.camel@laptop.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411051906.iA5J6XJd014410@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:06 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Besides, Linus has _explicitly_ said that binary (closed source) modules
> are OK (under certain conditions). And AFAIU there was legitimate
> discussion wether this particular excemption was required at al.

this sounds like a misunderstanding; and linus isn't the only copyright
holder.

See http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/COPYING.modules for the discussion
you aim at...
-- 


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-05 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-06 10:40 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-05 18:51 ` Michael Poole
2004-11-05 18:58 ` Disconnect
2004-11-05 19:03 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-05 19:38   ` linux-os
2004-11-05 19:06 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-05 19:39   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-11-06  3:21   ` Kyle Moffett
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-05 18:43 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-05 19:59 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-06  3:23   ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-06 20:09     ` David Schwartz
2004-11-06 21:40       ` Stephen Pollei
2004-11-07 17:05       ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-06 13:38 ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-06 15:49   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-07 21:08     ` Ryan Anderson
2004-11-05 18:31 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-05 18:20 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-05 20:00 ` Michael Poole
2004-11-04 23:33 Jérôme Petazzoni
2004-11-04 23:57 ` David Schwartz
2004-11-05  0:23   ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-05 15:27   ` David Woodhouse
2004-11-05  4:05 ` Scott Lockwood
2004-11-05 20:28 ` Tonnerre

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