Plan for tomorrows (20080522) FESCO meeting
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Sat May 24 11:37:02 UTC 2008
On May 23, 2008, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:44:17AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> > No it isn't. See "mere aggregation"
>>
>> That's a very optimistic interpretation of 'mere aggregation', given
>> that the licence is very clearly stating that it applies not only to
>> derivative works but also to collective works.
> I think the lawyers probably have more idea than you.
Although I'm pretty sure they'd have a hard time making this case once
they saw something like this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/18/277
Their opinions may very well be more informed, but until a court
decides on the matter, they're just as right or wrong as ours. It's
not too hard to find a lawyer that will tell you what you want to
hear. It's like going to doctors until you find one that says you're
not going to die soon, and then become convinced this one is right and
all the others were wrong in their diagnostic :-)
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