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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:00:32 -0300
From: Humberto Massa <humberto.massa@almg.gov.br>
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To: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>
CC: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, debian-legal@lists.debian.org,
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Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear
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Josselin Mouette wrote:

>It merely depends on the definition of "aggregation". I'd say that two
>works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and
>separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which
>you cannot easily extract the firmware and code parts.
>  
>
Not really... As a matter of fact, it's quite easy to separate those 
parts, at least as easy as it is to separate one story inside a book 
that contains an anthology of short stories. And the latter is not 
considered a derivative work, either.

Massa


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