linux-kernel - Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

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Message-ID: <3d57814d0702181316k1b1dfc1en710c9c4a88e05476@mail.gmail.com>
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
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