Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jul 1998 20:47:40 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing |
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
<SNIP> > meanings of all the terms in a legal document have to be fixed at compile > time, so to speak? I mean, if you (being the author of a piece of GPLed > software that can link to something else) are allowed to interpret > "linking" to mean whatever you want it to mean on a case-by-case basis, > where's the meaningful distinction between GPL and LGPL? The BeOS case > showed that basically anyone can "link" GPLed code whenever they want, as > long as they keep their address spaces separate.
Actually, Be ended up buying a BSD licenced driver from Donald Becker.
> IMHO there isn't any such meaningfule distinction between the GPL > and LGPL, and my non-lawyer suspicions tell me that eventually it will be > found in a court of law that once you compile GPLed code you cannot put > any restrictions on how people "run" the binary - which is all linking is, > really. Whoever made the point about distributed object systems was > correct - systems like that make everything "link" to everything else > anyway. > > Jon > > --- > 'Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the first serious step in > becoming one with God.' > - Scientist G. Richard Seed > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html >
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