Re: [OT] Module Licensing?

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 1 Nov 2001 00:10:54 +0000


Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:47:07PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > But if you take that strict interpretation, you have _no_ right to copy
> > or distribute the object module anyway, except as granted by the license
> > on the accompanying source code.
>
> Right you are, but this is trivial to circumvent if you are trying to ship
> a binary driver. The binary doesn't have GPLed code, you are shipping two
> things which are not combined when they were shipped, the end user combines
> them when running them.

Indeed, the very old, never resolved, "user does the link" argument again.

I honestly don't know what a court of law would decide on that. It may
well be different in different jurisdictions.

-- Jamie
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/