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| From: | Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules | ||
| Date: | Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:10:45 | ||
| Message-Id: | 55D4FEB6.3010009@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules by Rich Freeman |
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| 1 | On 08/19/2015 05:28 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
| 2 | > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Fernando Rodriguez |
| 3 | > <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote: |
| 4 | >> |
| 5 | >> The illegal part is not loading it but distributing the blob that depends on |
| 6 | >> the GPL exports. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > What makes it illegal? Quote the text of the relevant statute or |
| 9 | > court case. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Copyright law makes everything illegal. Downloading the source and |
| 12 | reading it is illegal. Why wouldn't it be illegal? The copyright holders |
| 13 | have made it clear that you have no license to do so. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> |