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DateMon, 19 Feb 2007 07:16:55 +1000
From"Trent Waddington" <>
SubjectRe: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers
On 2/18/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> 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
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