On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:05 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:08 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
but i really don't know
mfga.sd IOhannes
Dynamically linked libraries also trigger the GPL. For example, most
yeah; i wanted to stress that shipping a patch with abstraction
dependencies could even be considered as static linking - because
people seem to think that static linking enforces the GPL more than
dynamic linking. (which does say nothing about whether this is true)Linux kernel modules are dynamically linked into the kernel these
days, and they definitely required to be GPL.but there _are_ non-GPL'ed kernel-modules. even though they are disliked.
Yes, and they are also technically in violation of the GPL, AFAIK. I
imagine that Linus and the FSF has not enforced it because it could
be counterproductive.
.hc
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