Dmitri wrote:
> Quoting Lennart Augustsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I'm trying to understand what the copyright for the firmware for the
> > Keyspan serial adapters really means. It's certainly not GPL...
> >
> > "The firmware contained herein as keyspan_usa18x_fw.h is
> > Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Keyspan, A division of InnoSys Incorporated
> > ("Keyspan"), as an unpublished work. This notice does not imply
> > unrestricted or public access to this firmware which is a trade secret of
> > Keyspan, and which may not be reproduced, used, sold or transferred to any
> > third party without Keyspan's prior written consent. All Rights Reserved.
> >
> > To me it sounds like even ftp-ing a copy of the source code for
> > the driver made me violate the copyright. Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> If you downloaded it from Keyspan's server then the URI of the file
> can be understood as "Keyspan's prior written consent" because the
> only purpose of that URI would be to allow you to download the file,
> and only Keyspan could create that URI, and without it you wouldn't
> be able to find the file.
But I didn't download anything from Keyspan. I downloaded the Linux
kernel sources (which has this copyright in several files).
So the file has been reproduced to a "third party" (=me) without
Keyspan's written consent.
-- Lennart
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