Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262340AbVDLLrd (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:47:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262361AbVDLLqT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:46:19 -0400 Received: from hades.almg.gov.br ([200.198.60.36]:40095 "EHLO hades.almg.gov.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262340AbVDLLnx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:43:53 -0400 Message-ID: <425BB484.5090503@almg.gov.br> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:44:04 -0300 From: Humberto Massa User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050224) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 20 David Schwartz wrote: > This would, of course, only make sense if you *had* to agree to the > license to *create* the derivative work. If you were able to create > the derivative work under first sale or fair use rights, then the > restrictions in the contract would not apply to you. The only way to *create* a derivative work is with permission of the copyright owner of the original work. Period. This permission can come implicitly *if* you agree with licensing terms, but not under first sale or fair use *limitations*. (First sale / fair use are statutory limitations on copyrights, not rights). Massa - 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/