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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
From: |
Rui Miguel Seabra |
Subject: |
Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Jul 2004 22:12:45 +0100 |
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 21:31 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote:
> [...]
> > Start with Sega vs. Accolade.
>
> Kernel GPL-nazis aside for a moment, Linus should also read it.
Anti-GPL religious fanatics should understand that reverse engineering
is different from using software with a certain license that imposes
certain conditions for redistribution and recasting.
> I
> mean his silly rambling*** against "GPL\0 I love you" (or something
> like that ;-) ) trick to bypass EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL idiocy.
That's not idiocy. They don't render binary modules useless. It's the
nature of the way Linux works that makes them normally useless with each
new release.
The EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL serves mainly to protect the Linux programmers
against bug reports made by people who subject themselves to draconian
licensing schemes in order to get a binary driver to fulfill some
[tipically] petty need.
Rui
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/08
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Tim Smith, 2004/07/07
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/09
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/08
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/07
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Rui Miguel Seabra, 2004/07/06
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, David Kastrup, 2004/07/06