Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266444AbUFQKOp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266446AbUFQKOp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:14:45 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:3753 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266444AbUFQKOj (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:14:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:14:32 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Martin Diehl Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Oliver Neukum , davids@webmaster.com, erikharrison@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible Message-ID: <20040617101431.GA29474@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Martin Diehl , Oliver Neukum , davids@webmaster.com, erikharrison@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040617075926.GA27938@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 19 On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:09:23PM +0200, Martin Diehl wrote: > >From a technical point of view I'm just wondering how it comes this > firmware is derived from the Linux kernel? I mean this is running on an > 8-bit microcontroller with some 4KiB of memory so it sounds pretty much > impossible to me. > > If anybody would have a point calling this a derived work from Linux, I'd > be very concerned about SCO might have a point with their claims wrt. > Linux being derived from their IP =(:-( It doesn't matter and that's not what we're discussing here. There are whole C source files in the build with a license that doesn't allow modification. Firmware or not doesn't matter at all. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/