Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261453AbVDJJdD (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:33:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261455AbVDJJdC (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:33:02 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:63640 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261453AbVDJJc6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Apr 2005 05:32:58 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:24:10 +0200 Message-ID: <1n1euyqoz7akm$.1hq68bv2s0l5e.dlg@40tude.net> References: <87ekdq1xlp.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> <20050404141647.GA28649@pegasos> <20050404175130.GA11257@kroah.com> <20050404190518.GA17087@wonderland.linux.it> <20050404193204.GD4087@stusta.de> <1112709907.30856.17.camel@silicium.ccc.cea.fr> <20050407210722.GC4325@stusta.de> <1112944920.11027.13.camel@silicium.ccc.cea.fr> <20050408173400.GA15688@stusta.de> <1112982171.5017.6.camel@mirchusko.localnet> <20050408180109.GB15688@stusta.de> <1112985737.8705.9.camel@mirchusko.localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-244-252.37-151.net24.it User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 860 Lines: 20 On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:42:17 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Every book in my book shelf is software? > > If you digitalize it, yes. AFAIK software only refers to programs, not to arbitrary sequences of bytes. An MP3 file isn't "software". Although it surely isn't hardware either. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta "E la storia dell'umanit?, babbo?" "Ma niente: prima si fanno delle cazzate, poi si studia che cazzate si sono fatte" (Altan) ("And what about the history of the human race, dad?" "Oh, nothing special: first they make some foolish things, then you study what foolish things have been made") - 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/