Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932724AbVKDL7s (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 06:59:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932721AbVKDL7s (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 06:59:48 -0500 Received: from inti.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.21.155]:32194 "EHLO inti.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932724AbVKDL7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 06:59:47 -0500 Message-Id: <200511040057.jA40vN6W011188@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Rob Landley cc: linux@horizon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk Subject: Re: Would I be violating the GPL? In-Reply-To: Message from Rob Landley of "Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:50:29 MDT." <200511022150.29448.rob@landley.net> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.1; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:57:23 -0300 From: Horst von Brand X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0b5 (inti.inf.utfsm.cl [200.1.21.155]); Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:59:21 -0300 (CLST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1580 Lines: 34 Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 02 November 2005 16:21, linux@horizon.com wrote: > > Amongst the various arguments here for declaring a binary kernel > > module a drived work based on including kernel headers, please > > take a step back and remember that what's sauce for the goose is > > sauce for the gander. > > I think we've noticed the past few years of foaming looney attacks from SCO, > yes. And Microsoft's own attempts to license its header files, and such. [...] > > Do I want > > them to claim proprietary rights in the source code because it refers > > to symbols defined in their headers? > Are those symbols documented? Or did they have to deeply study a > copyrighted work in that claims rights over derived works in order to > find out about those symbols in the first place? To /study/ a copyrighted work to find out how it works and then write code against what you learned, you are /not/ copying anything. Sure, the original code's license might forbid such activities, but in Linux' case it certainly doesn't. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/