From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263846AbTJEUjn (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:39:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263847AbTJEUjn (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:39:43 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:49044 "EHLO imladris.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263846AbTJEUjm (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 16:39:42 -0400 From: David Woodhouse To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Maciej Zenczykowski , Rob Landley , "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Message-Id: <1065386326.3157.166.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-2.dwmw2.3) Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 21:38:46 +0100 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 3.0+cvs (built Mon Aug 18 15:53:30 BST 2003) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 12:47 -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Reading the C-code and creating another work which is identical in > functionality and completely original, it is not derived regardless what > anybody thinks or tells you. GPL only protects the actual file or > document. ...and continues to do so. So if the licence of the original says you may use it only if you do not create such a work of your own, then as soon as you create your own, you lose your right to continue to use the original. -- dwmw2