From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>,
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:55:49 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A13FBD.9080709@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080130175447.GB29368@does.not.exist>
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> IANAL, but I have serious doubts whether putting some glue layer between
> the GPL'ed code and the code with a not GPL compatible licence is really
> a legally effictive way of circumventing the GPL.
Just to refresh my memory, I re-read the GPLv2, and specifically the
licence (COPYING file) that comes with Linux 2.6.23, and I see nothing
in it that suggests shims, wrappers or other glue-layers are forbidden.
I see exactly the opposite. This idea that some symbols may only be
dynamically bound to GPL code is fallacy. In the preamble to GPLv2 are
words which make the position clear:
"the GNU General Public icense is intended to guarantee your freedom
to share and change free software"
Childish games, for example blacklisting ndiswrapper, can be defeated,
using patches, by authors of affected programs or anyone else. That's
the freedom guaranteed by GPL.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-29 21:22 ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux Pavel Roskin
2008-01-29 22:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-29 22:35 ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2008-01-29 23:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 0:25 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-29 22:45 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 23:56 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 3:24 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-30 5:07 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30 5:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 6:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-30 6:12 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-29 22:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-29 23:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-29 23:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-29 23:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 0:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 0:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 1:44 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-01-30 7:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-01-30 8:45 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 21:00 ` David Schwartz
2008-01-29 23:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 0:25 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 2:02 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 11:24 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-30 17:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 18:15 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-01-30 18:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 19:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-01-30 20:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-30 21:09 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <E1JKJvh-0006P8-Pi@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-02-01 5:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-06 10:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-06 11:11 ` Xavier Bestel
2008-02-06 11:38 ` David Schwartz
2008-02-06 15:10 ` Theodore Tso
2008-01-30 0:48 ` Giridhar Pemmasani
2008-01-30 17:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 18:26 ` Chris Friesen
2008-01-30 18:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-30 19:36 ` Lee Revell
2008-01-30 20:28 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31 1:00 ` Michael Gerdau
2008-02-05 13:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-04 12:42 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-04 13:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-31 3:25 ` David Newall [this message]
2008-01-31 15:20 ` Chris Friesen
2008-01-30 0:20 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30 0:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-30 0:48 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30 1:33 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 1:48 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-30 2:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-30 5:04 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-30 5:38 ` Zan Lynx
2008-01-30 7:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-01-30 8:54 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-01-30 20:50 ` David Schwartz
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