Re: Please open sysfs symbols to proprietary modules

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:30:59AM -0600, Jonathan A. George wrote:
>...
> ** As noted previously it would be interested to see the opinion of a 
> U.S. IP lawyer who has conclusively tested the impact of copy right law 
> where the boundary of what constitutes a derivative work was explicitly 
> stated by a federal judge.
>...

Why is only the opinion of an US lawyer important?

E.g. if you distribute something in Germany and a German kernel 
developer thinks the code you distribute violates the licence of a part 
of the kernel he has the copyright on German copyright law applies - and 
German copyright law is quite different from US copyright law.

cu
Adrian

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