Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964968AbWEOPNA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 11:13:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964969AbWEOPNA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 11:13:00 -0400 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:25317 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964968AbWEOPM7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 11:12:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:12:33 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Steven Rostedt cc: "Nutan C." , linux-kernel-Mailing-list , Fawad Lateef , jjoy@novell.com, "Mukund JB." , gauravd.chd@gmail.com, bulb@ucw.cz, greg@kroah.com, Shakthi Kannan , "Srinivas G." Subject: RE: GPL and NON GPL version modules In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 17 >You don't need to be an expert in Linux to know this. You need to have an >understanding of basic copyright law. You are not taking any GPL work and >distributing it, so you are not even affected by the GPL at all. If this >was the case, someone would have already written a GPL interface with MS >Windows and made MS open up their source. (BTW, there is a GPL work that >interacts remotely with MS, it's called Samba ;) > And one that pokes directly with it, WINE. :> Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/