"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 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...
The GPL does not forbid linking. In fact, the term "linking" appears nowhere in
the GPL text. People wo try to explain the GPL by using the term "linking" are
just wrong.
If you let other code use GPLd code, you _may_ create a drived work. If you do
not publish this combination, you do not violate the GPL.
Jörg
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