On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:13:24PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > To keep this relevant to Linux, there are also sorts of accomodations made > in the Linux Kernel and applications for varying sofware licenses. Just > because > the Kernel itself is GPL, that does not prevent someone from writing a module > that is BSD licensed, totaly freeware, or even OCO (Object code > only).
Dual licensing is subtle, but doable. I'm not sure what "totaly freeware" means from a license point of view, but OCO (more commonly referred to as "binary only") is *illegal*. http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html Cheers, Muli ================================================================= 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]
