Re: more files with licenses that aren't GPL-compatible

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:34:25PM -0400, Erik Harrison wrote:
> >        They can't grant that permission. Every single person who had contributed
> > to the Linux kernel would have to agree. The GPL prohibits including
> > software that isn't itself GPL'd from being combined with GPL'd software.
> > The issue is not permission to distribute this driver, the issue is
> > permission to distribute the *kernel*. The kernel's license prohibits
> > distrubiting it in combination with works that have licenses more
> > restrictive than the GPL.
> 
> That better be bogus, or else vendors are going to be very upset that
> they can't ship the kernel with, say, trademarked images. For example,
> Mozilla's trademark on their artwork is fairly restrictive, or the
> Mandrake Firewall product (if that's even still around - I don't keep
> up).

The trademark doesn't matter at all.  If want to include a logo in the
kernel source and license it under some GPL-incompatible license, yes
they can't redistribute it.

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