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Article #63300Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source
From: Tim Smith
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 21:51
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 21:51
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Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> wrote: >So it appears that there would be no problem for Tim to distribute a >driver in that form. The problem only comes up when someone else, a >distributor, wants to package MyDriver together with Linux. This combined I'm assuming that since the driver was only meant to be used with one specific vendors commercial product, and would be produced by that vendor and distributed with the product, there would be no need for kernel distributors to include it. There is another area where a problem arises, though. Suppose I buy the product and install the driver. I've got to now make sure that I remember that I can't give away copies of my Linux kernel, because if I do, I'll be violating GPL, since I don't have source to everything in my kernel. It could be easy to forget that. --Tim Smith
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,5004f6c9ec7613a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-14 13:51:29 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!rutgers!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!nntp.cac.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Wolfram/MMA & vendors refusing release on OS with source Date: 14 Feb 1995 21:51:29 GMT Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 Lines: 17 Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <3hr8l1$c7o@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <WGD.95Feb10184257@martigny.ai.mit.edu> <tgmD3w2ID.8vo@netcom.com> <3hlu32$rt0@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3hp50g$2qk@hermes.synopsys.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein3.u.washington.edu