Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:39:19 -0800 (PST) | From | David Lang <> | Subject | Re: GPL only modules |
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, D. Hazelton wrote:
> This doesn't negate any problems with people making Blob drivers, because, as > you pointed out, under the same laws they aren't a derivative work, which > means that that clause of the license doesn't apply. Now if the GPL contained > a clause specifically defining what it considered a derivative work things > would be different.
incorrect, the GPL (or any other license) cannot define what is a derived work, the law does that. they could have a clause in them that said that something that is a derived work under the law is not considered a derived work by the author (implicitly giving unrestricted permission to that something), but you cannot define something that the law doesn't consider a derived work to be one in the license.
David Lang
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