Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

[Les Mikesell]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>  
>> Nor do you have any standing to impose restrictions relating
>> to other works via copyright.
> 
> True, but this is a distraction.  Nobody's restricting other works.
> The issue the debate was turned into is whether the GPLed work can be
> distributed in this way.  The more people insist 'taking it out will
> break', the weaker the 'mere aggregation' defense becomes.

The way they are aggregated is the distraction since the unrelated 
nature of the components would be more obvious if there was a file-level 
split between firmware payload and deployment code.  But whether they 
are temporarily aggregated into the same file or not doesn't change 
their underlying status as different things.

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   Les Mikesell
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