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From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	David McIlwraith <quack@bigpond.net.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules
Date: 20 Nov 2002 11:17:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1037787457.19242.6.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021120081215.GC26018@mark.mielke.cc>

Le mer 20/11/2002 à 09:12, Mark Mielke a écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:06:39AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, David McIlwraith wrote:
> > > How should it? The compiler (specifically, the C preprocessor) includes
> > > the code, thus it is not the AUTHOR violating the GPL.
> > If the compiler includes a .h file, it happens because
> > the programmer told it to do so, using a #include.
> 
> I was recently re-reading the GPL and I came to the following conclusion:
> 
> The GPL is only an issue if the software is *distributed* with GPL
> software. Meaning -- it is not legal to distribute a linux kernel that

Yeah, that's precisely the problem here: the binary-only module is
distributed with included spinlock code, which *is* GPL.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-19 22:09 spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules Jeff Garzik
2002-11-20  1:52 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-20  2:48   ` Josh Myer
2002-11-20  2:59     ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-20  4:26       ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-11-20  6:41         ` archaios
2002-11-20  5:01           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20  5:24           ` Jon Portnoy
2002-11-20  5:47             ` GPL rant -- was: " Zac Hansen
2002-11-20 14:21         ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 18:57           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:09             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-20 19:32               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:33             ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 19:11               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 18:57       ` Thomas Langås
2002-11-20 19:15         ` Dana Lacoste
2002-11-20 18:32           ` nick
2002-11-20 19:50             ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:16               ` nick
2002-11-21  2:25           ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-21  5:10             ` TAINTED (Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules) Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20  2:49   ` spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules David McIlwraith
2002-11-20  3:06     ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-20  8:12       ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-20 10:17         ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2002-11-20 14:19           ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 14:09             ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-20 18:54             ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:31               ` Cort Dougan
2002-11-20 19:40                 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:44                   ` Cort Dougan
2002-11-20 19:55                     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 20:41                       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-20 21:15                         ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 22:03                           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 22:09                             ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-20 22:15                               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 22:43                             ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 22:17                               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 22:36                               ` Larry McVoy
2002-11-20 23:16                                 ` Eli Carter
2002-11-20 20:49                       ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 20:01                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-20 20:05                       ` Larry McVoy
2002-11-20 18:25           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-21 10:36     ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-11-21 13:08       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-21 17:02         ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-22  0:00           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-21 17:21       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-22  6:19         ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-20  4:12   ` Some like it HOT! (Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules) Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20  6:21 ` spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20  7:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-20  3:03 David McIlwraith
2002-11-20  6:31 Samium Gromoff
2002-11-20  8:27 ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-20 19:09 Nicholas Berry
     [not found] <fa.fglehrv.95g32b@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.h7et98v.hjm1of@ifi.uio.no>
2002-11-21  0:03   ` Russ Allbery
     [not found] <fa.ni4tkev.3ge008@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.onsrmsv.1g08thi@ifi.uio.no>
2002-11-21  9:05   ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-11-21 16:54 Herman Oosthuysen

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