linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

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Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:36:30 -0800
From:	"David Schwartz" <davids@...master.com>
To:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Cc:	"David Newall" <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
	"Christer Weinigel" <christer@...nigel.se>,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only


> IANAL, but when looking at the "But when you distribute the same 
> sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the 
> distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License" of the 
> GPLv2 I would still consult a lawyer before e.g. selling a laptop with a 
> closed-source driver loaded through ndiswrapper.

If that were true, you couldn't legally install more than one program on a computer without permission from all the copyright holders without specific license permission.

A "work based on the Program" is the same as a derivative work. A laptop with an assortment of different programs on it is not a work, it is a collection of works.

DS


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