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
next prev parent 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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