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Message-ID: <20080928194616.10d25760@bree.surriel.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:46:16 -0400 From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> Cc: jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Clarification from Copyright Holders on FUSE/NDISWRAPPER On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:45:36 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote: > The position statement on closed-source Linux Kernel Modules was > deliberately not a "policy statement", nor did it talk about issues > about what is or isn't legal. This was deliberate. Issues over > whether or not the GPL covers binary modules fundamentally depend on > individual legal jurisdictions' interpretations of copyright law and > derivitive works, This, of course, means you may want to ask your lawyer to make sure to which countries binary only kernel modules can be distributed and in which countries they are definately illegal. Then you can put some access control in place on your web site to make sure people from countries where binary only kernel modules are illegal cannot download your drivers. Of course, what to do with the countries where the answer to the question is not clear cut is up to you... Investigating a few hundred jurisdictions could be a fair amount of work, but if you want to be absolutely sure there's not much else you can do. -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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