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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs |
Date: |
Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:27:12 +0200 |
Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
[...]
> Of course, what Kastrup meant was collective work (but used a confusing
> choice of words).
>
> Of course, the technical term is not derivative. But it's easy to get
> confused trying to put it in ways 3 year olds would understand and you
> still don't.
Impeccable logic. I have no words.
>
> As to usage of Linux, Linus himself adds an explicit permission to link,
> just before the GPL v2:
>
> NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
> services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
> of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
>
> So it was _his_ call to declare it outside the scope. Don't confuse an
> explicit permission from the author with the default.
Ok. This thing goes in circles. I'm tired. You won.
regards,
alexander.
P.S. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/06
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Arnoud Engelfriet, 2004/07/07
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Per Abrahamsen, 2004/07/06
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