Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Oct 2003 06:56:03 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] |
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On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:24:36AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 20:45 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > > People get all worked up over this but when they do then they should > > also claim that system calls are not a boundary either. > > The first paragraph of the COPYING file makes it entirely clear that > system calls were not considered to be such a boundary.
You're forgetting that what the GPL says doesn't matter if it is unenforceable. Remember all the people yelling at me that they can reverse engineer BK in spite of any no-reverse-engineering clauses? That same logic applies to the GPL, you can't have it both ways.
It doesn't matter what you think, or I think, or Linus thinks. What matters is what is legal and what isn't. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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