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Re: making a non-GPLed module



On 2001 November 28 ,Wednesday 11:59, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>
> Again, I am no lawyer, but the "official" GNU/FSF standpoint as I
> understand is that the fact that module links against a GPLed work
> (the Linux kernel) means in is considered a "derived work" of the
> Linux kernel and therefor can only be published under the GPL.

That doesn't sound right to me. Wouldn't it imply that any program 
that you write using gcc (and which links against gnu's standard C 
library, naturally) must therefore be GPL?

As far as I know, that particular interpretation has been denied in 
the past.

Herouth

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