Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPL Violation of 'sveasoft' with GPL Linux Kernel/Busybox +code | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:47:24 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 22:14 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2004-11-10 at 23:09, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > GPL. I believe that a single binary firmware image is a single "work" > > according to the definition provided in the GPL, and therefore by > > distributing their code as a part of it, they have implicitly applied > > The firmware image is a file system so I'd suspect its "mere > aggregation" just like say a CD of GPL and BSD software, or your root > file system...
That's possibly true of any userspace applications they've added.
However, if you were arguing that the presence of the GPL'd kernel and the non-GPL'd modules was OK because it's "mere aggregation", that would be a different and far less supportable position -- since the beast cannot even come close to serving its purpose or being at all useful if you take away either the kernel, or the modules in question. Distributing a work which depends on both the kernel and those network driver modules is a clear violation of the GPL. But that's something that Cisco themselves are doing.
-- dwmw2
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