[s1mp3-dev] Licensing - (L)GPL x FreeBSD was : loadram -- USB subroutine upload program

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M. Warner Losh ha scritto:

>In message: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606152007200.18769 at sprite.student.utwente.nl>
>            Jeroen Domburg <jeroen at sprite.student.utwente.nl> writes:
>: On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>: 
>: > proprietary aspects.  The last thing we need is to give Actions a
>: > weapon to use against us in this manner.  That would be the down side
>: > of going GPL.  If Actions claims that some part of our code links in
>: > proprietary parts, and therefore invokes section 7 of the license,
>: > we're screwed and have to change it:
>: 
>: No, they can't, unless we're linking it to _their_ proprietary code. Only 
>: the copyright holder of a piece of code can enforce the GPL by suing 
>: someone.
>
>Yes.  They can.  They can claim that we're using their proprietary
>interfaces.  We have to use at least some of their code, unless we
>write our own DSP code.  They can say that interfacing to DSP code
>violates some patent we don't know about that they own or licensed.
>You don't have to be a copyright holder to fuck someone with the GPL.
>
>If we write every last bit of binary code that's loaded into the
>device, then that would save us from copyright issues, but not patent
>issues.
>  
>
Flame me if I am wrong, but arent we going to "write every last bit of 
binary code" ? I thought we were on that boat...

>Warner
>
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