Re: Forking and relicensing issues (different)

1999-05-11 Thread Henning Makholm
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if you will) that linking against the syscalls is considered use and not > derivation. I was reacting to someone who seemed to think that "use" implies "deriviation". -- Henning Makholm

Re: Forking and relicensing issues (different)

1999-05-11 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 04:43:13PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > I was reacting to someone who seemed to think that "use" implies > "deriviation". Then we don't read messages the same way. Anyway, "use" is expressedly not governed by the GPL. The problem is whether something is "use" or "deriv

Re: Forking and relicensing issues (different)

1999-05-11 Thread James Mastros
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:21:45PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 06:18:59PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Would that mean that a program that happens to run only under Linux > > 2.2.x is a modification of Linux and so MUST be GPL'ed? > > No. Linux is not GPL.