Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPL Violation? | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:20:44 +0200 |
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> My only worry is what's the legal status of the vsyscall if the only > thing that matters is the COPYING file and not its generally agreed > interpretation. > -
I've yet to see a generally agreed interpretation on any kind of exception to the COPYING file (afaik there is none), and if there's no exception..... I don't think there's a generally agreed interpretation on when exactly something becomes a derived work either. That is where lawyers come in, and I suspect that it will even vary from country to country to some degree, depending on the fine details on exactly how and what you do. And since I'm not a lawyer, all I can say is: if you want to live your life on that particular edge, make sure you talk to a good lawyer or two (and most will give you the advice to really try hard to not live on that edge, precisely because it's so unclear and varying on jurisdiction) . Anything else you or I say on this topic is sort of meaningless since neither of us are lawyers.
On the vsyscall page... I thought it was BSD licensed, and if not, it probably should be, and I agree with you that that probably wants to be made explicit somewhere if it's not already.
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