[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RE: Nokia 770 sources...

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2006/8/30, Andrew Barr <andrew.james.barr at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 19:47 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> > Forgive me if I'm ignorant, but do you mean this one:
> >
> >   https://garage.maemo.org/projects/cx3110x/
> >
> > "License: GNU General Public License (GPL)" doesn't sound too binary,
> > even though GPL tends to be a bit black-and-white in it's license
> > compatibility regulation... ;)
>
> AFAICT the license is at least partially incorrect.

And so I am fooled to be ignorant :/

> Look in the
> Subversion repo and you'll see that it's one of those
> source-wrapper-around-a-binary-blob style drivers.

Hmm, I've always been under the impression that any kind of
combination of binary-only and GPL code would be in violation... IANAL
of course.

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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