Subject: Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, arjan@infradead.org,
       andrew@walrond.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 14:38 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Conspiracy to commit what offence?  There's nothing wrong with linking
> GPL'ed code with propietary code, in the privacy of your own home (or
> server).  The offence only happens when you distribute the resulting
> derived work....

In many countries moving the data from hard disk to memory is copying,
ditto to cache, and that is established caselaw.

Alan

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