Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:27:22 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? Message-ID: <3632620.1054052842187.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com>
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>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" > >
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