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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:16:55 +1000 From: "Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@...il.com> To: "Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>, "Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@...il.com>, "Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>, "Neil Brown" <neilb@...e.de>, davids@...master.com, "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers On 2/18/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@....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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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