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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
	Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>,
	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>,
	Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.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: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:41:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDBF383.3020907@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10211201152000.3892-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

Alan Cox wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 19:55, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> >So " -fno-inline " should be enough to squelch the extremists?
>
>
> Its not relevant to the discussion even.


That's $topic AFAICS.  Some armchair lawyers are alleging that 
#include'ing GPL'd kernel code into non-GPL'd binary kernel module makes 
that module a derivative work and thus must be GPL'd itself.

Have we decided that #include'ing GPL'd code does, or does not, taint 
otherwise "license-clean" code that includes the GPL'd code?

The only thing I've seen from Linus is him mentioning that this is a 
"grey area".  Given this message:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103487469728730&w=2

we fall to copyright law, and wonder aloud if an obviously-non-derived 
work #includes GPL'd code, does it become derived?

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 20:34 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
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 [this message]
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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