Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
"...just see module loading as "use" of the kernel, rather than
as linking against it."
Again, you are taking two different statements and trying to collapse
them together to give it a context that does not exist
This statement was repeated in other contexts - that's just what google
popped up first. Do you really believe that Linus himself did not
understand exactly the context that this wording applied to? He said it
specifically to clarify any doubt about the matter.
Like I said, you can repeat this all you want. The facts of the matter
remains,
* Linus has repeated claimed that the copyright of derivative works
depends on the specific instance
Close - he said that whether modules are derivative works at all depends
on the instance - even in the quote I posted. That is, modules do not
have to be derivative works. Of course they could be, perhaps by
inclusion of other GPL'd material. They just aren't because they use
the kernel services - or at least that was the only story in 1995.
* He is not the only copyright holder and others have expressed even
more strongly their beliefs that modules are derivative work.
That's kind of irrelevant to the fact that they may not be.
* FSF is not the copyright holder and their views are not relevant to a
discussion about the Linux kernel
Agreed, but Eben Moglen's opinion should be as well-versed as anyone on
the topic. I certainly had no reason to disbelieve it when that was
published.
* Historically, the interface between modules and the kernel were weaker
and one could get away with this argument but that case is much harder
to make today.
I never expected Linux to be one of those products that shipped an
unusably flawed version and forced you accept different terms to get the
update to something usable.
You have clearly been shown to twist facts to the extend of claiming
that no license other than GPL is compatible with itself and I am not
willing to argue with you anymore about this.
There is no twisting involved to point out that the 'work-as-a-whole'
clause of the GPL forces exactly its own terms on all components. If
you don't like to talk about that, so be it.
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