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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:35:43AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> That clause only deals with some anthology works, not all.  It's an
> exception to <<a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or
> any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing
> the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications...>>
> It's pretty clear that the linux kernel is not a mere aggregation of
> works on some volume of storage.

Any chance you guys could come to some kind of consensus on this so I
know what has to be done for the debian package?

Thanks.


-- wli
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