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SubjectRe: GPL only modules
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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