Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:53:57 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Module Licensing? |
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: > I think another way to look at it might be: if you extend a GPLed > program using well defined interfaces, you can probably get away with > not GPLing your code.
I imagine the question then arises to whether even the "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL" interfaces fall under the definition of a well-defined interface. I suppose (IANAL) that the "intent" of the author in marking this interface as GPL-only has some impact on the discussion?
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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