Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752135AbXBRVQ7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:16:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752132AbXBRVQ7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:16:59 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:21936 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752135AbXBRVQ6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:16:58 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tKiBMuG2Cdy72i+gqI9WHMI00gMcNGo98pfGTZNyCEJHwyZZ/6VgJNQy2UTGHooyKKYiCP2m/fc261k75VQqo4PBSSJjsqLvBDZCytcgmqsF22iT5U8HkYLG9Og+WW60iQXuZJQcH2AiMUHxPZNbwQAVGxbPNhXrsgXoUsZA+XY= Message-ID: <3d57814d0702181316k1b1dfc1en710c9c4a88e05476@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:16:55 +1000 From: "Trent Waddington" To: "Theodore Tso" , "Trent Waddington" , "Michael K. Edwards" , "Neil Brown" , davids@webmaster.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers In-Reply-To: <20070218135719.GB20321@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070216125353.GN13958@stusta.de> <17878.48376.629016.49202@notabene.brown> <3d57814d0702171926v53812baeqaeeda326aa225acf@mail.gmail.com> <20070218135719.GB20321@thunk.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1133 Lines: 24 On 2/18/07, Theodore Tso 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/