Messages in this thread | | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Sun, 5 Oct 2003 04:32:59 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] |
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:
> The presence of the exception makes it clear that, without such > exception, userspace would have been considered to be a derived work in > the terminology of the original licence. Otherwise, the exception would > of course have been redundant. > > If userspace would be considered a derived work without explicit > exception, then so are kernel modules. They have no such explicit > exception, and are hence not permitted.
no, all the presence of the userspace exception means is that someone attempted to make the claim that you would only be allowed to run GPL software on a GPL kernel and Linus wanted to make it absolutly clear that that wasn't the case.
trying to claim otherwise, even without a specific 'userspace exception' is along the same lines as what SCO is doing, (anything that ever ran on the same box as Sys V is part of SysV)
why do people realize how stupid this argument when SCO makes it, but somehow when it's made on behalf of the GPL it somehow seems sane?
as got the GPL_only stuff, I am seriously worried about people defining something and then declaring that anything that uses it in any way must be a derived work, that there is no other legitimate way to use it. how many people would buy this argument if it was being made about some function in a piece of hardware? (i.e., if you use this function on this 802.11 card then your software is obviously a derivitive of our driver so we get all the rights to it)
David Lang
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