Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

[Alan Cox]

> > AFAICS, the firmware is just a file served up to the device as needed
> > - no more a derivative work from the kernel than my homepage is a
> > derivative work of Apache.
> 
> Indeed.  But if you compiled your home page, linked it into Emacs to
> display on startup, and distributed the binary, the _combination_
> "Emacs+homepage" binary would be a derived work, and you'd be required
> to offer source for both parts.

In which case GNU Emacs violates the GPL by containing a copy of COPYING which
is more restricted than the GPL. After all it displays copying on a hotkey
combination

Is that really what you are trying to say ??

Alan