From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux, binary blob and binary driver summary for vendors?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:13:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110801151302.7d56cd0d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110801134212.GS29803@nalle>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 14:09 UTC|newest]
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2011-08-01 13:42 Mikko Rapeli
2011-08-01 14:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-08-01 14:31 ` Mikko Rapeli
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