Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755310AbYA3Ipb (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:45:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755213AbYA3IpH (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:45:07 -0500 Received: from agrajag.mansr.com ([78.86.181.102]:51552 "EHLO mail.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754810AbYA3IpF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:45:05 -0500 To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux References: <1201641765.18773.35.camel@dv> <20080129225701.GS8767@does.not.exist> <20080130003519.GB1802@does.not.exist> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:45:03 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Geert Uytterhoeven's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:38:47 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (Educational Television, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1670 Lines: 39 Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Mans Rullgard wrote: >> Adrian Bunk writes: >> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25:22PM +0000, Mans Rullgard wrote: >> >> As long as you don't distribute /proc/kcore, I can't see how the GPL >> >> would have any say in the matter. The Windows drivers are (unrelated >> >> violations aside) clearly not derived from GPL code. >> > >> > Someone might sell a laptop with Linux installed? >> >> Not a problem, unless it is booted when sold. Even that might not be >> a problem, since it would be a matter of transferring ownership of a >> single copy, not creating and distributing new copies, and the GPL >> is only concerned with the latter. > > Interesting... I never heard about this `transferring ownership of a > single copy not involving GPL'. In the US, the first sale doctrine allows one to do pretty much anything with a given copy of a work, so long as no duplication is taking place. This includes modifying the work and selling it. > Note that some lawyers claim that at trade shows, you should not hand over > a demo device running GPLed code to any interested party, as it would be > distribution... Lawyers tend to be overly cautious at times. That said, I am not a lawyer, and may have misunderstood something. If that is the case, I apologise for any confusion I may have caused. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mans@mansr.com -- 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/