Chris Friesen wrote:
On the other hand if I were to sit down and write an OS-agnostic proprietary chunk of code, and then write a new GPL shim to use it under linux (and maybe other shim layers for other OS's as well), I _might_ be okay. But I would have to be prepared to prove that the proprietary code was not derived from the Linux kernel.
Sounds extremely unlikely. Copyright doesn't cover "intentions". It covers expression in a tangible form. If you take your logic to an extreme, then merely by thinking "I might just link helloworld.c in the kernel" your saying that it suddenly becomes subject to the GPL, even though nothing about helloworld.c has changed. Now package it up with the kernel and things change, because you've created something tangible, a compilation. Graeme Gill. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
