[Fedora-legal-list] Linux firmware

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Apr 29 17:42:38 UTC 2009


On 04/29/2009 01:19 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> The copyright holder didn't permit the combination of the second piece
> of code (which, being driver code rather than firmware, is software even
> under your standards) with the other “derived from proprietary
> unpublished source code” 

Given that the copyright holder on BOTH works is the same, unless you
have it in writing from the copyright holder that they do not permit
this combination, I don't draw the same conclusion as you.

~spot




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