Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclearcopyright notice.

[Humberto Massa]

Josselin Mouette wrote:

> It merely depends on the definition of "aggregation". I'd say that two
> works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and
> separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which
> you cannot easily extract the firmware and code parts.
>  
Not really... As a matter of fact, it's quite easy to separate those 
parts, at least as easy as it is to separate one story inside a book 
that contains an anthology of short stories. And the latter is not 
considered a derivative work, either.

Massa


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