OK, so according to Linus, the GPL allows a proprietary program to make calls to the kernel,
As I understand things, it's not the GPL which allows this, it's Linus himself who allows it. If Linus hadn't explicitly said that, the GPL might be interpreted as disallowing it.
-- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
