Bug#354216: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/25/06, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Next, the presence of the binary blobs, if they're actually needed, > preclued this work from being compatible with the GPL. Sez who? The last I heard Moglen "freed" blobs. The Prof in GNU Law declared them to be fully resistant to the

Bug#354216: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Eduard Bloch wrote: > The drivers do not load. They compile fine, but they do not load > because some kernel developers think that they must throw stones > into way of users (for whose sake?!). > > I have set the MODULE_LICENSE string to "Dual BSD/GPL" because I > honestly th

Bug#354216: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Alexander Terekhov [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:06:11PM]: > On 2/25/06, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > exist. Md raised his voice and he has a point, though a DMCA-threat in > > GPL context looks slightly absurd. > > Slightly?! > > - > The authentication sequence, i

Bug#354216: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/25/06, Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > exist. Md raised his voice and he has a point, though a DMCA-threat in > GPL context looks slightly absurd. Slightly?! - The authentication sequence, it is true, may well block one form of "access"—the "ability to . . . make use of"

Bug#354216: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Kel Modderman [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 10:15:11AM]: > >Ehm... Sorry, would you please read the license you are talking about? > >You did not even copy it to the report. > > > > > > slmodem-2.9.9e-pre1a/COPYING > > > /* > * > *Copyright (c) 2001, Smart Link Ltd. > *All rights res

Bug#354216: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-24 Thread Kel Modderman
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * Kel Modderman [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 12:46:42AM]: Eduard Bloch wrote: I though I have written that above. Can you please clarify at all? What makes a license "clone" an interchangeable license, especially since you are the one respon

Bug#354216: changing upstream's MODULE_LICENSE string in module source

2006-02-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Kel Modderman [Sat, Feb 25 2006, 12:46:42AM]: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > >I though I have written that above. > > > > > > Can you please clarify at all? What makes a license "clone" an > interchangeable license, especially since you are the one responsible > for the actual license ch