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    SubjectRe: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers
    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.

    Trent
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