From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>,
Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU>, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Module Licensing?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:54:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011031155447.R1506@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011031092228.J1506@work.bitmover.com> <4986.1004558101@ISI.EDU> <20011031144244.R607@ftsoj.fsmlabs.com> <20011031234707.A9542@kushida.jlokier.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20011031234707.A9542@kushida.jlokier.co.uk>; from lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:47:07PM +0000
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:47:07PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> But if you take that strict interpretation, you have _no_ right to copy
> or distribute the object module anyway, except as granted by the license
> on the accompanying source code.
Right you are, but this is trivial to circumvent if you are trying to ship
a binary driver. The binary doesn't have GPLed code, you are shipping two
things which are not combined when they were shipped, the end user combines
them when running them.
--
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-31 23:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-30 3:46 Module Licensing? Kevin D. Wooten
2001-10-30 4:08 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-30 4:58 ` TimO
2001-10-30 5:10 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-30 7:24 ` Kevin D. Wooten
2001-10-30 17:27 ` Timur Tabi
2001-10-30 23:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-31 0:13 ` Timur Tabi
2001-10-31 0:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-31 16:53 ` Timur Tabi
2001-10-31 17:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 17:22 ` Larry McVoy
2001-10-31 17:27 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 18:34 ` Larry McVoy
2001-10-31 18:44 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 18:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-10-31 20:08 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2001-10-31 17:32 ` dean gaudet
2001-10-31 19:55 ` [OT] " Craig Milo Rogers
2001-10-31 21:42 ` Cort Dougan
2001-10-31 23:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-10-31 23:54 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2001-11-01 0:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-11-01 0:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-01 23:52 ` n0ano
2001-10-31 17:29 ` Timur Tabi
2001-10-31 17:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-31 18:31 ` LLX
2001-11-08 0:36 ` drizzt.dourden
2001-11-08 12:41 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-08 13:19 ` Drizzt Do'Urden
2001-11-08 14:53 ` Module Licensing? (thinking a little more) Drizzt Do'Urden
2001-11-08 15:56 ` Doug McNaught
2001-11-08 17:00 ` Drizzt Do'Urden
2001-11-08 17:18 ` Russell King
2001-11-08 17:47 ` Drizzt Do'Urden
2001-11-09 7:50 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-10 18:09 ` QuoteMstr - Danny Colascione
2001-11-08 17:29 ` Doug McNaught
2001-11-08 19:28 ` drizzt.dourden
2001-10-31 20:15 ` Module Licensing? Craig Milo Rogers
2001-10-31 19:49 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2001-11-04 3:37 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-10-31 17:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-05 4:40 ` [file interface] " Roger Larsson
2001-10-30 9:22 ` Alan Cox
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