> On 2001 November 28 ,Wednesday 11:59, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > > Again, I am no lawyer, but the "official" GNU/FSF standpoint as I > > understand is that the fact that module links against a GPLed work > > (the Linux kernel) means in is considered a "derived work" of the > > Linux kernel and therefor can only be published under the GPL. > > That doesn't sound right to me. Wouldn't it imply that any program > that you write using gcc (and which links against gnu's standard C > library, naturally) must therefore be GPL? >
This would mean exactly that IF the GNU C libs were licensed under the GPL, but they are not. They are licensed under the LGPL (the GNU Lesser Public License, a.k.a the GNU Library Public License) which does allow linking (without cosidering the linked work as "derived") and was made for exactly these cases. So we are both right ;-) Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel: +972(9)9717330 | Fax: +972(9)9717334 | Cel: +972(54)756701 Kagoor Networks ltd | http://www.kagoor.com | > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
