Re: module license taints kernel.

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:41:57 -0800 (PST), David Schwartz wrote:

If I take a DVD of The Lion King and a DVD of The Phantom Menace, I
can put them in the same box without creating a derivative work. This
is so even though each of the two works I put in the box are creative.
The question is, can I put them in the box? And the answer depends
upon what "putting in the box" does, not on what the original works
are.

But we're not just talking of putting two works in a box, or even of
using the (linked) combination, but of copying them and distributing
them. And if one of the works is GPLed, copying and distributing it is
on its terms.

See Lexmark v. Static Controls.

Presumably that would mean something to a lawyer but IANAL.

Bob T.
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