Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:16:45 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: "Jonathan A. George" <jageorge@austin.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:59AM -0600, Jonathan A. George wrote:
>...
> ** As noted previously it would be interested to see the opinion of a 
> U.S. IP lawyer who has conclusively tested the impact of copy right law 
> where the boundary of what constitutes a derivative work was explicitly 
> stated by a federal judge.
>...

Why is only the opinion of an US lawyer important?

E.g. if you distribute something in Germany and a German kernel 
developer thinks the code you distribute violates the licence of a part 
of the kernel he has the copyright on German copyright law applies - and 
German copyright law is quite different from US copyright law.

cu
Adrian

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