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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: greendisease <jaboutboul@gentoo.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linksys WRT54G and the GPL
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 22:50:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030608225055.E9520@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0306081402140.3604@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com>; from davidel@xmailserver.org on Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:08:39PM -0700

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:08:39PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> IANAL, but in many coutries the fact that you didn't know is not an
> excuse. When you integrate alien parts in your products you become
> responsible and you have to be sure about all aspects that arise.

What if, when you obtained said parts, it came with a license which
appeared to be genuine, but in fact was illegally changed in a country
which has not signed up to the copyright treaty?  (I believe this may
be part of the story here.)  I believe that you'd need a good copyright
lawyer, and it may depend upon local law.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-08 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-08 20:41 Linksys WRT54G and the GPL greendisease
2003-06-08 21:08 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-08 21:23   ` Jack Aboutboul
2003-06-08 21:50   ` Russell King [this message]
2003-06-08 22:48     ` Davide Libenzi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-01-17 17:51 nipponmail
2003-07-18 23:48 root
2003-06-10  4:11 Russ Dill
2003-06-09 13:13 Downing, Thomas
2003-06-09 16:49 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-06-09  3:47 Russ Dill
2003-06-09  8:04 ` Russell King
2003-06-09  0:05 Erik Andersen
2003-06-09  3:39 ` John Shifflett
2003-06-09 18:26   ` Alan Cox
2003-06-08 23:35 Erik Andersen
2003-06-09  0:09 ` Paul Jakma
2003-06-09  1:11   ` Erik Andersen
2003-06-08 23:25 Hakan Lennestal
2003-06-08 23:55 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-06-09  8:47   ` Hakan Lennestal
2003-06-08 20:57 Peter Westwood
2003-06-08 21:52 ` Russell King
2003-06-08 23:18 ` bill-linuxkernel20030609
2003-06-09  0:19 ` Oliver M. Bolzer
2003-06-09  0:31   ` Jeff
2003-06-10 20:43   ` Michael Neuffer
2003-06-08  3:53 Erik Andersen
2003-06-08 10:08 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-08 12:01   ` Christian Ullrich
2003-06-08 13:52     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-06-08 14:05       ` Marcus Metzler
2003-06-08 16:49       ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-08 17:00         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2003-06-08  3:13 Brad Chapman
2003-06-08 16:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-06-08  2:41 Andrew Miklas
2003-06-08 11:54 ` Dave Jones
2003-06-08 14:23   ` Alan Cox
2003-06-08 18:13   ` uaca
2003-06-08 19:44 ` Colm MacCárthaigh
2003-06-08 20:14   ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-08 21:47   ` Russell King
2003-06-09 22:37   ` Daniel Phillips
2003-06-10 22:47     ` Andrew Miklas
2003-06-11 12:42       ` Alan Cox
2003-06-11 14:28       ` Kent Borg
2003-06-09  5:22 ` Frank Cusack
     [not found]   ` <20030609053010$504e@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-06-09  8:28     ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-09 14:09   ` Horst von Brand
2003-06-09 18:23   ` Alan Cox
2003-06-09 21:33     ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-09 21:50       ` David Schwartz
2003-06-09 22:21         ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-10 20:17           ` Randolph Bentson
2003-06-11 15:38             ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-11 17:39               ` Randolph Bentson
2003-06-11 19:22                 ` Adrian Bunk
2003-06-11 20:12                   ` David Schwartz
2003-06-09  5:32 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-09  5:47   ` Frank Cusack
2003-06-09 16:53     ` David Schwartz
2003-06-09 18:25     ` Alan Cox
2003-06-09 21:37     ` Adrian Bunk

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