From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:16:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:16:15 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:6918 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:16:04 -0400 Subject: Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic To: marco@esi.it (Marco Colombo) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:14:49 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Marco Colombo" at Jun 21, 2001 10:12:35 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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