Re: GPL Violation?

[Ian Stirling]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 00:45 +0100, Ian Stirling wrote:
> > With the appropriate disclaimers on the box, it cannot function
> > incorrectly, as you will know that the  thumb-print reader won't
> > work if you upgrade the kernel, and if you intend to do so,
> > you don't buy.
>
> As far as I can tell, the GPL does not contain the text "if you are
> shipping a commercial product don't really want to comply with this
> licence, you can just put a disclaimer on the box of your product and
> that's OK instead".

Sorry, I was tired, and misread that you were making the
'not merely an archive' point as an argument for why the module
was a derived work, which makes little sense.
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