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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:52:00 +0100
From: Ian Stirling <ian.stirling@mauve.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: GPL Violation?
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David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 00:45 +0100, Ian Stirling wrote:
>> With the appropriate disclaimers on the box, it cannot function
>> incorrectly, as you will know that the  thumb-print reader won't
>> work if you upgrade the kernel, and if you intend to do so,
>> you don't buy.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the GPL does not contain the text "if you are
> shipping a commercial product don't really want to comply with this
> licence, you can just put a disclaimer on the box of your product and
> that's OK instead".

Sorry, I was tired, and misread that you were making the
'not merely an archive' point as an argument for why the module
was a derived work, which makes little sense.
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