From: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux, binary blob and binary driver summary for vendors?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 17:31:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110801143108.GU29803@nalle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801151302.7d56cd0d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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2011-08-01 13:42 Mikko Rapeli
2011-08-01 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2011-08-01 14:31 ` Mikko Rapeli [this message]
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