Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 01:39:29PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > No. It has always been understood by the GNU Project that using > > kernel syscalls does not make something "one program"; the fact that > > Linus mentions that explicitly doesn't change the fact one whit. > > How is the GNU Project's understanding relevant when they did > not write the Linux kernel?
The point, which you seem intent on missing, is that the understanding of the GNU Project, and the Linux kernel, and all the other free kernels out there, is the same in this regard. The fact that the Linux authors put it explicitly does not indicate, therefore, that without putting it there explicitly, the GPL would have different implications.