From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:43:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E19yIBE-0000nO-00@neptune.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vq84.1P5.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:30:12 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:
>> If people put GPL_ONLY symbol exports in their code, that's their call
>> to make, is it not? It's their code and they're free to say "well, this
>> is my code, and if you use this symbol, I consider your stuff to be a
>> derived work". Once again it's up to the lawyers to decide whether
>> this has legal value or not.
> If it has legal value, then it's an additional restriction.
Derived works are already restricted (when it comes to distributing them,
otherwise none of this is relevant since you can easily locally make
all EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL be plain EXPORT_SYMBOL). It would be a restriction
on who gets to say what constitutes a derived work and what not - but
that is not governed by the GPL anyway but by the relevant local laws.
The GPL does not and cannot outrank the law. If the law were to say the
authors of a piece of code get to say what is a derived work and what
not, then so it is and nothing the GPL says can stand against it.
--
Ciao,
Pascal
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-13 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <vpYm.1Bn.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <vq84.1P5.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-13 21:43 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
[not found] <fa.fq1hscm.1b7ai1k@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.n3hqp6f.1rkg0ob@ifi.uio.no>
2003-09-14 4:39 ` walt
2003-09-13 9:08 Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-13 9:49 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-13 14:37 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2003-09-13 17:16 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <uess.1w0.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <ujV3.1uP.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-10 21:52 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-10 22:26 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-10 22:34 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-11 1:35 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-11 13:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-11 18:39 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-11 18:45 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-13 17:52 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-13 23:54 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-13 17:34 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-14 10:55 ` Sean Estabrooks
2003-09-11 14:36 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 17:42 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-12 20:58 ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-12 21:47 ` Matt D. Robinson
2003-09-12 22:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-12 23:26 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-13 0:29 ` Matt D. Robinson
2003-09-13 17:42 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 5:38 ` jw schultz
2003-09-13 17:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 18:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-13 20:01 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-13 23:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-14 1:57 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-14 2:40 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-14 3:42 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-14 3:36 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-14 4:37 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-14 21:40 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-15 8:06 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-14 2:51 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-10-29 22:42 ` David Schwartz
2003-10-29 23:11 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-30 0:10 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-11 1:39 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-13 17:11 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-13 21:11 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-09-13 21:19 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-13 21:12 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-13 22:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 22:30 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-14 1:16 ` Andrew Pimlott
2003-09-15 15:26 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-13 23:00 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-09-12 21:04 ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-12 21:17 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-15 18:24 ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-15 20:17 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-13 18:09 ` Andre Hedrick
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-04 3:01 Driver Model David Schwartz
2003-09-10 14:59 ` People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model] Timothy Miller
2003-09-10 20:34 ` David Schwartz
2003-09-12 19:55 ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-13 14:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-13 17:58 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-10 23:35 ` James Clark
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