* Linux, binary blob and binary driver summary for vendors?
@ 2011-08-01 13:42 Mikko Rapeli
2011-08-01 14:13 ` Alan Cox
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From: Mikko Rapeli @ 2011-08-01 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
What is a good and also technically detailed summary of the binary blob and
driver issues with Linux kernel and GPL?
I'd like to refer a vendor to some documentation regarding this instead
writing a ton of text with IANAL everywhere.
Thanks,
-Mikko
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* Re: Linux, binary blob and binary driver summary for vendors?
2011-08-01 13:42 Linux, binary blob and binary driver summary for vendors? Mikko Rapeli
@ 2011-08-01 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2011-08-01 14:31 ` Mikko Rapeli
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From: Alan Cox @ 2011-08-01 14:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mikko Rapeli; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:42:12 +0300
Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> wrote:
> What is a good and also technically detailed summary of the binary blob and
> driver issues with Linux kernel and GPL?
>
> I'd like to refer a vendor to some documentation regarding this instead
> writing a ton of text with IANAL everywhere.
I would suggest they talk to the Linux Foundation. It's basically a legal
question around derivative works, and that's a lawyer question that tends
to need looking at by lawyers per piece of code.
Aside from that there are technical, marketing and PR things to consider.
Alan
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* Re: Linux, binary blob and binary driver summary for vendors?
2011-08-01 14:13 ` Alan Cox
@ 2011-08-01 14:31 ` Mikko Rapeli
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From: Mikko Rapeli @ 2011-08-01 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alan Cox; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:13:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:42:12 +0300
> Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> > What is a good and also technically detailed summary of the binary blob and
> > driver issues with Linux kernel and GPL?
> >
> > I'd like to refer a vendor to some documentation regarding this instead
> > writing a ton of text with IANAL everywhere.
>
> I would suggest they talk to the Linux Foundation. It's basically a legal
> question around derivative works, and that's a lawyer question that tends
> to need looking at by lawyers per piece of code.
Good point, thanks.
> Aside from that there are technical, marketing and PR things to consider.
For the technical issues I've found Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt
and these links:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/technical-advisory-board-tab/lfstatement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob
These should be enough to start. Next question will hopefully be answered by
the staging tree.
-Mikko
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