From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 09:27:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA1837B401 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 09:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A186343FA3 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 09:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from webmail05.mac.com (webmail05-en1 [10.13.11.147]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h4RGRV0x012902; Tue, 27 May 2003 09:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail05 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webmail05.mac.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h4RGRMg1002495; Tue, 27 May 2003 09:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3632620.1054052842187.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:27:22 -0500 From: David Leimbach To: Terry Lambert Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Alexander Kabaev cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 16:27:33 -0000 >Remember that's it's legal to to distribute seperate binaries, >as long as you comply with the GPL for the GPL'ed binary, but >it's a violation of clause 6(b) of the GPL to combine them >into one binary and distribute them, if you are legally >obligated to not give out the source code for the non-GPL'ed >portion. And since the only thing that gives you the right >to use the code in the first place is the license... IANAL but I think the GPL has provisions for binaries that contain code that is not necessarily dependant but merely aggregated into one package. Still I agree... it must be a module for more than one very good reason :). > >-- Terry >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >