From: "mirabilos" <eccesys@topmail.de>
To: "Larry McVoy" <lm@bitmover.com>, "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: <scott@CS.Princeton.EDU>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules?
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:58:47 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00ea01c0d8ba$3412fc30$de00a8c0@homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105091750.f49HoEg20765@chinstrap.CS.Princeton.EDU> <E14xYMC-0002vn-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010509114816.K14127@work.bitmover.com>
> If the free software community understood and accepted this, by the
way,
> then I think that it removes the need for the LGPL, it's redundant.
What is when compiling a DOS/DJGPP programme? IIRC it is statically
linked
to the libc-dos. IIRC the LGPL here prevents the remaining DOS programme
code
to be GPL'ed too.
I'm neither a lawyer, but this is the difference as I understood.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
-mirabilos
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-09 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-09 17:50 Nasty Requirements for non-GPL Linux Kernel Modules? Scott C. Karlin
2001-05-09 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-09 18:48 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-09 18:58 ` mirabilos [this message]
2001-05-09 19:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-13 9:32 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-13 10:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-13 18:18 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-05-14 6:21 ` Mike Galbraith
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