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Le 2015-08-19 19:14, Michael Orlitzky a écrit : |
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> On 08/19/2015 06:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> Copyright law makes everything illegal. Downloading the source and |
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>>> reading it is illegal. Why wouldn't it be illegal? The copyright holders |
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>>> have made it clear that you have no license to do so. |
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>> If I distribute a binary kernel module, I'm not copying anything that |
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>> I didn't write. I'm the copyright holder of the binary kernel module. |
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> Anything you can do without the kernel source code is legal, sure. But |
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> we're talking about... |
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> 1. Downloading the kernel source (making a copy of) it. |
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> 2. Patching it. |
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> 3. Linking it with closed source code. |
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> 4. Distributing the result. |
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> (If that's not what you have in mind, maybe we are at cross purposes). |
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> Step #1 is illegal unless you have a licence. The burden of proof is on |
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> you to show that you were allowed to do it. |
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>> That is why I want you to actually look up the letter of the law, |
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>> because if the specific action being done isn't in the letter of the |
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>> law, then those claiming copyright have an uphill battle ahead of |
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>> them. |
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> I'm not going to go look up whatever statute says "you can't make a copy |
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> of copyrighted stuff" =P |
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All the Linux manufacturer has to do is provide a kernel with the bullshit parts removed. It can provide a script to install the proprietary driver. |
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A judge would throw out of court any ridiculous complaint about someone installing a good video driver on their computer because they do not like the trash that came with it. |
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Manufacturers of video cards have plenty of customers with Winblows and MAC. They cannot afford to release information that their competition can use to steal their market share. |
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Business is a very competitive market, industrial espionage is not the only thing companies have to worry about it. |
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Our choice here is either to have a decent display or crap, my choice is the first. For the dev of the kernel to attempt to keep us from having decent display is uncalled for. |
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The day I will use nouveau instead of the good nvidia driver as my father use to say, in the week of three thursdays. |
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For Linux Software visit |
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http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/suzielinux/ |
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