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Re: making a non-GPLed module
- Subject: Re: making a non-GPLed module
- From: Shachar Shemesh <linuxil(at-nospam)consumer.org.il>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:57:16 +0200
- CC: linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
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Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>>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?
>>
>
>This would mean exactly that IF the GNU C libs were licensed under the GPL, but they are not. They are licensed under the LGPL (the GNU Lesser Public License, a.k.a the GNU Library Public License) which does allow linking (without cosidering the linked work as "derived") and was made for exactly these cases.
>
>So we are both right ;-)
>
>Gilad.
>
Actually, and I am far from being sure about it, I think that glibc is
licensed under the GPL, with a specific clause that says that programs
linked against it are excluded from this license. The LGPL is not
something RMS seems to like any more ;)
Shachar
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