Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [firmware as mere aggregation] >>> Kernel copyright holders think otherwise, as do many other people. [...] > A little Google shows that Yggdrasil has made such an argument: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00130.html > > Unfortunately for Mr. Richter, Linux does not seem to contain any > copyright notices attributable to him or Yggdrasil before 2000. As I > cited elsewhere, this is at least FOUR YEARS after firmware was > included in the kernel, so he cannot fairly claim infringement. He > should have known that binary firmware existed in the kernel before.
Is this relevant? He contributed code to a GPL'ed project, assuming that all of the project meets the license requirements. Do you expect every contributor to check the copyright status of every file in the project? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
