From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: marco@esi.it (Marco Colombo)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:14:49 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15DBmr-0002E4-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106212158090.6630-100000@Megathlon.ESI> from "Marco Colombo" at Jun 21, 2001 10:12:35 PM
> Pardon me, but what does "Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL" mean in the
> above 3)? (I'm asking to you since you seem to agree). Even if the
> database is found to be linked with a GPLed piece of SW, this doesn't make
> it (the database) GPLed, it just breaks Oracle's licence on the GPL SW.
Right. And anyone who claims that Oracle is a derivative work of the Linux
Kernel has a few screws loose.
It no more belongs to Linus because it runs on Linux than to Bill Gates because
it runs on NT
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-21 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-21 18:14 Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 18:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-21 19:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 19:51 ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-06-21 20:13 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 20:46 ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-06-21 21:02 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-21 21:05 ` Andrew Pimlott
2001-06-21 21:17 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-21 20:17 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-21 20:29 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-21 18:39 ` Jeff Golds
2001-06-21 18:51 ` Jeff Mahoney
2001-06-21 20:02 ` Steve Brueggeman
2001-06-21 18:46 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-21 19:03 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-21 19:53 ` Erik Mouw
2001-06-21 19:04 ` Mike Harrold
2001-06-21 19:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-21 20:12 ` Marco Colombo
2001-06-21 21:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-06-21 20:31 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-21 19:08 ` Timur Tabi
2001-06-21 19:17 ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-21 20:01 ` Wei Weng
2001-06-21 19:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-21 19:34 ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-06-21 20:17 ` D. Stimits
2001-06-22 11:32 ` Rob Landley
2001-06-21 20:34 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2001-06-21 21:35 ` Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic (long) Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-06-22 12:32 ` Fair Use (Was Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic) Rob Landley
2001-06-22 1:29 ` Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-22 10:44 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-23 20:11 ` Fabrice Gautier
2001-06-21 19:22 Disconnect
2001-06-21 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-21 19:25 Jesse Pollard
2001-06-21 21:43 Timur Tabi
2001-06-22 3:05 Rick Hohensee
2001-06-22 4:05 ` kumon
2001-06-23 22:29 ` Scott Wood
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