Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 07:09:48 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: jak@cetlink.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commercial software (definitive) Message-ID: <199805161209.HAA03337@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980516130729.30106@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 16, 98 01:07:29 pm"
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Eivind Eklund said: > > Another issue of the GPL is how a GPLed kernel extend to LKMs and > userland programs. I know Linus don't want it to cover LKMs/usrland, > but I don't think this issue have been fought in court yet. It would > be interesting to see what would happen if e.g. Microsoft get some > code in the Linux kernel, and then try to sue a competitor for not > releasing source to their products. > Linus added the relief after the code was released under GPL with other peoples contributions incorporated. That is a very iffy thing, and I don't think that he can really give such relief. (It isn't clear that he even "owns" the kernel.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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