On Sul, 2004-04-18 at 07:52, Ryan Underwood wrote: > So your advisor is saying that such a work is undistributable under the > GPL, or are they saying that it is not distributable at all?
They are saying that in their reading of the law it would be better if the firmware was kept seperate. Lawyers do not define the interpretation of law, especially in the absence of specific caselaw. > Otherwise, it could simply be a configuration list that is parsed by the > device, or a memory initialization image, or a dispatch table, or > something similar, and rejecting such things on the basis that they are > *suspected* to be software without source seems to be counterproductive There is no difference between the two, but this is getting very off-topic ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
