Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763730AbYBLSCi (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:02:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759329AbYBLSC3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:02:29 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:55721 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757848AbYBLSC2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:02:28 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: davids@webmaster.com, David Newall , Greg KH , Christer Weinigel , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:50:17 +0100." <1202619017.7664.53.camel@violet> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1202619017.7664.53.camel@violet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202839330_2949P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:02:10 -0500 Message-ID: <29562.1202839330@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1493 Lines: 39 --==_Exmh_1202839330_2949P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:50:17 +0100, Marcel Holtmann said: > go ahead and create an application that uses a GPL only library. Then > ask a lawyer if it is okay to distribute your application in binary only > form without making the source code available (according to the GPL). > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL What happens if I ship a binary-only program that uses *either* a GPL library or a custom library with the same API? "If you don't have the Frobozz-Foo library, you'll have to supply your own work-alike".... (Note that this is in fact the *usual* case - very few programs actually check that they are linking against a Genuine GPL(tm) library, they just want the *API*, so providing a work-alike is sufficient....) --==_Exmh_1202839330_2949P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHsd8icC3lWbTT17ARAp32AKCjtR+Mh+CIHkH0QLL1L5MqOZu+WACgyM/z +p4Cid8bNIX3OGAnDAeYtkk= =MzXq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202839330_2949P-- -- 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/