On 18/09/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mario Goebbels wrote: > > >> The GPL does not come into play until you *redistribute* a derivative > > >> work. > > > > > > The usual loophole scenario, does it apply? I mean, creating the driver > > > in source and only offering the source, leaving what's to be done in the > > > hands of the user. > > > > > > -mg > > > > No, because that's still redistribution of the source. > > If you do not add other software that is not under GPL or that you do not > own, you still may distribute the source. You are not allowed to ship > binaries.
This view seems to be supported among the various commercial products that link to the Linux kernel, but only at the point of installation. The logic being that until you link the two pieces of source code together, you haven't created a derivative work. Whether or not this is true, I wish I didn't have to care... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
