From: "Harald van Dijk" <truedfx@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3.
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:04:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070713050443.GA31362@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4696b2bd.kcGnkUFoCMKDeiXx%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
> >Correct, it does, just like it permits C applications with
> >GPL-incompatible licenses to link with GPL libraries, so long as this
> >linking is done by the end user and the application is not distributed
> >in its linked form. See for example the NVidia kernel module, or for a
> >somewhat different but similar example, cdrtools.
>
> Not true:
>
> cdrecord and "all-1" programs in cdrtrools are 100% CDDL.
>
> mkisofs is a GPL project that links to non-GPL libraries.
> This is something that is no problem with the GPLv2 as long as the
> libraries are not derived from or written for GPL code.
>
> As the libraries mkisofs links with are older than mkisofs or at
> least written independently and usage neutral, there is no problem
> even with binaray redistribution of mkisofs.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
Neither the FSF nor you hold the copyright to mkisofs, but still, I'll
take the FSF's own interpretation over yours. If others believe you're
right, that's their choice.
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[not found] <4696b2bd.kcGnkUFoCMKDeiXx%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
2007-07-13 5:04 ` Harald van Dijk [this message]
2007-07-13 5:21 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3 Harald van Dijk
2007-07-07 18:21 [gentoo-dev] app-arch/cpio-2.9 is now GPLv3 David
2007-07-07 18:35 ` [gentoo-dev] Watch out for license changes to GPL-3 Petteri Räty
2007-07-08 10:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-07-08 11:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2007-07-08 11:50 ` Wulf C. Krueger
2007-07-08 13:06 ` Seemant Kulleen
2007-07-08 14:46 ` Dominique Michel
2007-07-08 17:48 ` Seemant Kulleen
2007-07-08 18:15 ` Richard Freeman
2007-07-09 0:04 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2007-07-09 9:31 ` Steve Long
2007-07-09 15:13 ` Duncan
2007-07-09 16:27 ` Jeroen Roovers
2007-07-09 16:43 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-09 19:37 ` Dominique Michel
2007-07-10 9:30 ` Duncan
[not found] ` <20070709163914.GB16617@kroah.com>
2007-07-09 19:07 ` [gentoo-dev] " Dominique Michel
2007-07-09 21:24 ` Greg KH
2007-07-10 17:10 ` Dominique Michel
2007-07-10 18:11 ` Greg KH
2007-07-10 20:37 ` Kevin Lacquement
2007-07-10 20:49 ` Greg KH
2007-07-12 9:18 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2007-07-12 18:24 ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-07-12 18:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-12 19:00 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-12 19:07 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-12 19:14 ` Seemant Kulleen
2007-07-12 19:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-12 19:48 ` Wulf C. Krueger
2007-07-12 20:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-12 19:58 ` Chris Gianelloni
2007-07-12 20:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-12 20:17 ` Petteri Räty
2007-07-12 20:46 ` Harald van Dijk
2007-07-13 2:56 ` Jeroen Roovers
2007-07-12 20:10 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-12 20:16 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-12 21:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-12 21:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-12 21:32 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-13 2:53 ` Jeroen Roovers
2007-07-13 3:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-13 3:55 ` Marius Mauch
2007-07-13 4:20 ` Jeroen Roovers
2007-07-13 5:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-12 18:43 ` Greg KH
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