Fedora Freedom and linux-libre
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 22:33:36 UTC 2008
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
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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