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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 25 May 2001 12:10:31 +0100 (BST)


> Not to sound dense, but what part of the GPL prohibits a piece of GPL'd
> software from including non-GPL'd code? The GPL does explicitly state
> that you can't include it's software in proprietary code, but I don't
> recall seeing a provision that prohibits the other way around.

The same thinbg holds true both ways. A work containing GPL code must be GPL
or freer. Adding either to the other is the same thing.

The firmware is a seperate work, and its mere aggregation even if a .o file
is a more unusual archive formt

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