Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

Jacob Luna Lundberg (kernel@gnifty.net)
Fri, 25 May 2001 10:23:33 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> 1 : a group, body, or mass composed of many distinct parts
> or individuals
> 2 a : the collecting of units or parts into a mass or whole
> b : the condition of being so collected
>
> You have to argue that absolutely nothing more than this
> is being done. For example, the code the parts are not working
> together.

Um. So you mean that if I use a processor with proprietary microcode then
I can't run Linux on it? ;-)

Seems the argument is about where an arbitrary boundry should be placed
and clearly it's not black and white.

-Jacob

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