I dunno, obviously I want to make everything according to law to avoid
any problems. Maybe we should contact someone at The Software Freedom
Law Center or some similar entity?
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:59:46 +0200, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ick, no, that's not needed here.
Still I had a chat on IRC with a person who knows copyright law rather
well[1] which pointed me to a few things. ;)
Take the copyright off if this is something that _you_ wrote. If you
copied it from somewhere and modified it, say where you copied it from,
and show the rights that allowed you to copy it.
Where exactly did you get it from originally?
The RNDIS template was taken from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff570620.aspx
The CDC ACM was sent by Xiaofan Chen who said that it is probably
taken indirectly form MSDN as well.
The MSDN TOS reads:
If Microsoft makes any code marked as “sample” available on this
Web Site without a License Agreement, then that code is licensed
to you under the terms of the Microsoft Limited Public License.
Where the MLPL can be found at:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/cc300389.aspx#MLPL>. It seems like
a perfectly legal free software license except point 3(F):
(F) Platform Limitation- The licenses granted in sections 2(A) & 2(B)
extend only to the software or derivative works that you create that
run on a Microsoft Windows operating system product.
Also, 3(D) requires that the whole license is included:
(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form,
you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of
this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of
the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under
a license that complies with this license.
Therefore, shall we include the license along with the INFs and ignore
the fact it's not fully free software?
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[1] I'm deliberately not using the word "lawyer" here not I give the
person's name as to not make an impression that it was a legal
advice or to make him in any way liable. This was *not* a legal
advice.
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