> The GPLv2 is written such that the "if you're interfacing the kernel > or compiler you don't need to opensource that bit with your app" I would suggest you re-read the license. It says nothing of the sort. Indeed the gcc compiler licensing for the compiler support library is actually rather carefully done for this reason. > You may think it's a horrible idea, and from a technical perspective > it is, but from a legal perspective.. it's not a problem. I would suggest you re-read the detail on derivative works, from a legal not a computer science point of view. You may want to read up on the history of the dispute between Next (the computing not the clothing firm) and the FSF with regards to the Objective C compiler. Note also btw that the possibility of accidentally including general user space was a concern which is why there is a rider with the kernel COPYING file - for the standard syscall interfaces only. There is a difference between a derivative work and merely using an interface and there are lots of ways works can be derivative or not that usually surprise people who think in models around code. The fact these can work in weird and wonderous ways is one reason for that rider. > grounds, and policy grounds. There is no legal issue here. It is not That is a point only a court of law can decide. It's something I do spend time discussing with lawyers and I have to say not one of them considers there to be no legal issue. The actual boundary for such things is extremely grey and ill defined in software, although there is a lot more caselaw in comparable other areas (anthologies and compilations versus for example music as film scores, or combining two pieces of music to make one tune) > concept now... what's the point? It'll never get into mainline. Unless it is open sourced - ditto the various other things with the same problem - including things like the Intel PSB driver. Alan _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
