Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:00:32 -0300 | From | Humberto Massa <> | Subject | Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. |
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Josselin Mouette wrote:
>It merely depends on the definition of "aggregation". I'd say that two >works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and >separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which >you cannot easily extract the firmware and code parts. > > Not really... As a matter of fact, it's quite easy to separate those parts, at least as easy as it is to separate one story inside a book that contains an anthology of short stories. And the latter is not considered a derivative work, either.
Massa
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