Bug#815060: citation needed?

[Paul R. Tagliamonte]

As a non-ftpmaster decision (feel free to poke an actual master), and 100%
only me, as a human, I agree with everything Ben said.

   Paul
On Feb 18, 2016 6:15 PM, "Ben Hutchings" <ben at decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:41:02 +0100 Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
> wrote:
> > control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> >
> > Hi Julian,
> >
> > could you please cite those "lawyers and people" or explain their
> arguments?
> > (Not that citing a lawyer neccessarily means anything, but just stating
> some
> > lawyers think something is not even enough to think about removing a
> package
> > from the archive.)
> >
> > And the ZFS situation is not comparable because that one is about a
> > incompatability of two different licences…
>
> It is very much comparable.  The CDDL is a free software licence but it
> has different requirements from the GPL and doesn't allow relicensing
> to follow the GPL's copyleft provision, so you can't distribute a work
> derived from two works under the two licences.  Similarly, the Nvidia
> licence says we have no right to source code for, or even the right to
> attempt to decompile, the binary blob they provide, and doesn't allow
> relicensing either the blob or provided source code to follow the GPL's
> copyleft provision.  Once they are combined with a GPL'd work, the
> combination is not legally distributable.
>
> As for the idea that the nvidia kernel driver is an independent work:
> the part provided as source code uses Linux specific kernel APIs such
> as procfs, CPU hotplug notifiers and seq_file, and provides wrappers
> for the console_lock and console_unlock functions that can then be
> called by the blob.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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