Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:22:22 +0200 | From | Stefan Smietanowski <> | Subject | Re: GPL issues |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > <obligatory_ianal_marker> > >>Suppose I use the linux-vrf patch for the kernel that is freely >>available and use the extended setsocket options such as SO_VRF in an >>application, do I have to release my application under GPL since I am >>using a facility in the kernel that a standard linux kernel does not >>provide? >> > > > If vrf has no other uses besides your proprietary application, I'd shudder.
So in order for you not to shudder the vrf people have to write a GPL'd program or convince someone else to write one?
That sounds .. really odd.
Or more to the point, someone ONLY writes kernelmode stuff, doesn't touch userspace at all. A proprietary app shows up that uses it, and all of a sudden this guy's kernelmode whatever is disliked cause noone wrote any GPL'd program for it?
That's almost forcing the person who wrote the kernel part to write a GPL'd program JUST because there is a proprietary program using his stuff - and THAT is insane.
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