On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:12:41PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote: > This has the makings of a nice stable internal kernel api. Why do we want > to provide this nice stable internal api to proprietary modules?
because there is IMHO legally nothing we can do about it anyway. Use of an industry-standard API that is provided in multiple operating system is one of the clearest idnication of some program _not_ being a derivative work. Whether we like it or not, it doesn't really matter if we export them GPL-only or not. Anybody using those scoket API calls will be having an easy time arguing in favor of non-derivative work. The GPL doesn't extend beyon what copyright law allows you to do... -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- Linus
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