Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:34:23 -0800 (PST) | From | Tim Smith <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Potential GPL violation of Linux kernel by MOSIX? |
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> > Considered from a copyright point of view, I don't see any difference > > between kernel modules and applications. From a copyright point of ... > Copyright law is pretty much irrelevant here; it only serves to > determine who chooses the license terms, not what the interpretation of > those license terms is.
No, copyright law is very relevant here, because if blob of code A does not infringe the copyright of blob of code B, then there is no need for A's author/distributor to give a darn about the license B is distributed under.
All license inquiries, whether for GPL or any other license, should really start with the question "do I need the licensor's permission to do this?". For software, that inquiry is a copyright question (and maybe a patent question).
--Tim Smith
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