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Author Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?
Humberto Massa

2004-06-20, 10:24 pm

@ 17/06/2004 18:27 : wrote Raul Miller :

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> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 04:41:42PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
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> Ok, this is good -- I did not know that.
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> However -- by this definition, the linux kernel is very definitely a
> derivative work, and the firmware is content which has been
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> According to what you just cited, the concept of a collective work
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Repeating, trying to summarize: the current version of the Linux kernel
is a derivative work of its earlier versions, and an anthology work of
its separated autonomous parts. Those parts, in principle, would be each
and every patch that entered the kernel and stayed there.

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