Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:16:55 +1000 | From | "Trent Waddington" <> | Subject | Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers |
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On 2/18/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > Actually, the FSF and many of its representatives, has claimed, on > many occassions, that the GPL infects across dynamic linking. That > is, if you write your own code that calls readline which links via a > dynamically linked shared library, and perhaps even across dlopen(), > they claim that the GPL applies to the code which you write. Given > that the only way this could happen is via copyright law, they are > basically saying that if you use the readline interface, you have > created a derived work and they therefore 0wn your source code.
Is that so?
> Whether or not this would be laughed out of court or not will very > much depend on the local legal precedents (and Trent Waddington has > quoted some very interesting legal cases based on US court decisions,
Wow? I did? Really? I must have been sleep typing.
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