Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 20 Nov 2002 14:19:15 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 10:17, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Yeah, that's precisely the problem here: the binary-only module is > distributed with included spinlock code, which *is* GPL.
That doesnt neccessarily make it a derived work. Suppose I publish a book including a lawyer who says "Your honour I ...". That doesn't make it a derivative of some previous work I read that used the same phrase.
Equally if I paraphase the entire court scene but use no identical words it may be a derived work.
Stop thinking about this as a mathematical question. It isnt about the union of sets of instructions.
Alan
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