Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: Possible GPL infringement in Broadcom-based routers | Date | Fri, 5 Nov 2004 22:21:53 -0500 |
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On Nov 05, 2004, at 14:06, Horst von Brand wrote: > This is nonsense: If so, I'd be commiting a crime each time I fire up > emacs > on Solaris (linking (GPLed) emacs to (propietary) libc in RAM). [Yes, > just > an example; haven't done so for the best part of 5 years now...]
What you do with the GPL _on_your_computer_ is not relevant. libc is a standard interface, which is used by many programs, much the same way that a keyboard is a standard interface to a computer. You don't see companies with copyright to _all_ keyboards, do you? ;-D
> Besides, Linus has _explicitly_ said that binary (closed source) > modules > are OK (under certain conditions). And AFAIU there was legitimate > discussion wether this particular excemption was required at al.
This, of course, would assume that said code is compiled as a module. I posted earlier some available makefile snippets from the code that they _do_ distribute that shows they do _not_ link it as a module, but directly into the kernel. Last I saw, NVidia couldn't distribute kernels with their modules compiled directly into the binary.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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