>From: Hugh Blemings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I ran Keyspan's proposed wording by Greg in the first instance then Randy
>double checked it with Linus when the first formal patch went in. Linus'
>response was;
>From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:NOSPAM]
>Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 4:20 PM
>To: Randy Dunlap
>Subject: Re: [patch] usb-serial new support for more keyspan devices
>On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> Is there a problem with the license in some of these
>> files? (2 examples below)
>No. We've had binary-only firmware before. It's only if it runs on the
>main computer that it has to be GPL..
> Linus
Although I am not a lawyer and you should not take this as
legal advice, I believe that Linus is completely wrong about this
copyright issue. Of course, he has the legal ability to grant you
additional permissions on his copyrights and probably has done so
with that statement, but he has no such ability with respect to
the other copyrights.
Again, I think the best solution would be to create a user
level program that reads the firmware from a data file, and kernel
ioctl to support this. (By the way, in that case, we would probably
choose to distribute the program--assuming that it's GPL compatible--and
just include instructions on where to obtain the data files.)
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