Luke Skywalker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:24:35 +1100, Tim Churches > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel > >: services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal > use > >: of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived > work". > > OK, so according to Linus, the GPL allows a proprietary program to > make calls to the kernel, but TrollTech says the GPL doesn't allow a > proprietary program to make calls to the Qt library.
No. Linus is providing a specific **extension** to the GPL which excludes calls to kernel services from the scope of the GPL. Whether he needs to do that is, as we have seen, debatable, but he is making the situation crystal clear. Tim C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
