[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Yes, it is different. One is a program making callouts to a different > entity, the kernel. The case we were talking about is that of library > linking.
I should add here that it is relevant that the callouts to the kernel are callouts to an interface which is defined as "not making things a combined derived work", which is not normally the case for a library. It is relevant and important here that the authors of the kernel intend that understanding of those callouts. If some nefarious added callouts to a GPL'd program which normally had nothing similar, and then had some non-free program use those callouts, all as an attempt at a subterfuge to defeat the GPL, this would not be allowed. Thomas
