Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:39:33 +0200 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: If loadable modules are covered by Linux GPL? |
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 05:11:04PM -0400, "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> wrote: > Really? "inline functions" were done by Borland, Microsoft, Intermetrics, > and probably every other compiler vendor, starting with Pascal, then > doing the same thing with 'C'. This is hardly a GNU-ism.
Yes, and functions were also used before, but still the GPL applies to *some* functions, just as it applies to some *inline* functions.
> Note from "COPYING":
which does not apply to functions from header files (and the GPL includes these, a common problem).
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