Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules

Samium Gromoff (_deepfire@mail.ru)
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:31:08 +0300


> When you GPL a piece of software, you sign over your rights to the FSF.
> Therefore, there is very little that can be done about this;
> from a legal perspective, the FSF _itself
> determines what is and what isn't construed as a derived work.
Microsoft would _love_ the world to think that GPL is like that.
I`m sorry this is a plain FUD.

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cheers,
   Samium Gromoff
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