From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I9DNY-0003tc-H2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:07:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6D56klg025940; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:06:46 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6D54dXO023470 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:04:40 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (cp237988-a.mill1.nb.home.nl [84.29.252.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262C165676 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:04:43 +0200 From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Watch out for license changes to GPL-3. Message-ID: <20070713050443.GA31362@boostbox.mill1.nb.home.nl> References: <4696b2bd.kcGnkUFoCMKDeiXx%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4696b2bd.kcGnkUFoCMKDeiXx%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Archives-Salt: 60791017-69ab-457a-a532-595f09144120 X-Archives-Hash: bb96158a138bcdc1fe5b67d5ad0702c9 > >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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list