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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:06:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_k=u1Ou5EMFCLEsHDUxjfJC6GTLBg2Y+A1jgMzdXNtANQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP25673FCE5DE4CE914AC5CDB8D670@phx.gbl>

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Fernando Rodriguez
<frodriguez.developer@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not a lawyer but as I understand it, it's not on the "letter of the law"
> because it's a technical issue and the law hasn't caught up.
>
> My view, and what I think is most in the spirit of the law, is that it is a
> derived work simply because it doesn't work without those GPL exports.
>

My car doesn't work without tires.  Does it mean that Kia needs a
license from Michelin to make cars?

-- 
Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-20  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-16 16:45 [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day walt
2015-08-16 16:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-16 19:42   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-08-16 19:48     ` Alan McKinnon
2015-08-16 21:07       ` walt
2015-08-16 21:34         ` Dale
2015-08-16 22:39           ` walt
2015-08-17  5:53             ` Dale
2015-08-18  1:44               ` [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules walt
2015-08-18 20:49                 ` Dale
2015-08-18 23:55                   ` walt
2015-08-19  0:39                     ` Dale
2015-08-19  3:12                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-19 11:00                         ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-19 19:06                           ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-19 21:28                             ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-19 22:09                               ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-19 22:21                                 ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-19 23:14                                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-19 23:40                                     ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-20  0:04                                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-20  0:25                                         ` Michel Catudal
2015-08-20  0:38                                           ` Dale
2015-08-20  0:37                                         ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-20  0:48                                           ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-20  1:11                                             ` Michel Catudal
2015-08-20  1:20                                             ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  2:37                                               ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-20  2:53                                                 ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  7:24                                                   ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-20 11:48                                                     ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  1:13                                         ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  8:40                                           ` Marc Joliet
2015-08-20 11:51                                             ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  1:09                                       ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  1:41                                         ` Dale
2015-08-20  2:25                                         ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-20  2:43                                           ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  3:02                                             ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-19 23:57                                     ` Michel Catudal
2015-08-20  1:05                                     ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  1:12                                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-20  1:24                                         ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  1:35                                           ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-20  2:39                                             ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  3:22                                               ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-20 12:00                                                 ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-19 23:30                               ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-08-20  1:06                                 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2015-08-19  1:54                   ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-19  3:20                     ` Michael Orlitzky
2015-08-19 11:12                       ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-19  7:57                     ` Marc Joliet
2015-08-19  8:06                       ` J. Roeleveld
2015-08-19  9:19                   ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2015-08-19 11:06                     ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-19 12:31                       ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2015-08-19 13:17                         ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-19 22:31                           ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2015-08-20  1:01                             ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-20  1:29                             ` Rich Freeman
2015-08-16 23:27         ` [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day Michel Catudal
2015-08-17  1:43           ` walt
2015-08-17  2:37             ` Michel Catudal
2015-08-17  7:17           ` netfab
2015-08-17 18:28             ` mcatudal
2015-08-18  1:13             ` Michel Catudal
2015-08-18  8:04               ` netfab
2015-08-17 16:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Heiko Baums
2015-08-18  2:04   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-08-18 18:38     ` Heiko Baums
2015-08-18 23:40       ` walt
2015-08-17 21:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Marc Joliet
2015-08-18  1:56   ` [gentoo-user] " walt

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