From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263731AbTDXRen (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:34:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263735AbTDXRen (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:34:43 -0400 Received: from mail.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.13]:36791 "EHLO smtp1.actcom.net.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263731AbTDXRem (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:34:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA822FB.205@shemesh.biz> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:46:35 +0300 From: Shachar Shemesh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4 X-Accept-Language: en, he MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kernel Mailing List CC: Russell King , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! References: <1051174641.1385.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20030424101903.C9597@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <3EA7CCD3.7090603@shemesh.biz> In-Reply-To: <3EA7CCD3.7090603@shemesh.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Wouldn't "control ... installation" include the keys too? > > IANAL, but I am on the board of an NPO that advocates Free and Open > Source Software, and that NPO has a lawyer (who is VERY familiar with > the GPL). Would it make sense to ask him? After all, that merely means > what one lawyer would say. > Ok, so I did. The gist of it - a very quick analysis said "no, it does not cover the keys". You can now return to your usual debate. More in details, the keys seem like a late addition to the already compiled kernel, have a standalone existance, and are not even code, and can therefor not be considered "deriviative work". -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/