Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263806AbUFQVhc (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:37:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263810AbUFQVhc (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:37:32 -0400 Received: from vsmtp1b.tin.it ([212.216.176.141]:33217 "EHLO vsmtp1.tin.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263806AbUFQVhb (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:37:31 -0400 Message-ID: <40D21104.5000802@stanchina.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:45:40 +0200 From: Flavio Stanchina User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mdpoole@troilus.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible References: <200406180629.i5I6Ttn04674@freya.yggdrasil.com> <87n032xk82.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> <20040617100930.A9108@adam> <96BD7BAE-C092-11D8-8574-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <40D20449.5000107@stanchina.net> <877ju5yjxp.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> In-Reply-To: <877ju5yjxp.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1338 Lines: 31 mdpoole@troilus.org wrote: > Sure there is: To the extent that there is a real license problem, > work with the copyright owner(s) for the files and binary blobs to > resolve the problem. [...] Yes, of course that would be fine. I started with the implicit assumption that the license could not change, sorry. This might open another can of worms however. Once you get a binary blob into the kernel and you know that it really is code for an embedded microprocessor or such, what is the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it"? Wouldn't that be source code in whatever language that blob is written in? Wouldn't that also require a toolchain to build it? MY opinion is that it' much better to get it out of the kernel anyway. > Contrary to your (and SCO's) allegations, kernel gatekeepers > generally exercise care with respect to new contributions. I did not allege anything like that. I never doubted that Linus and most other maintainers do, in fact, understand legal things quite well, contrary to what SCO said or implied several times. -- Ciao, Flavio - 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/