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Re: Does Hebrew U. violate the GPL?
ps -fax writes:
> Today, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo blurbed:
>
>
> > OZ>> http://cachedot.slashdot.org/articles/99/02/27/076204.shtml
> >
> > If they don't provide source - surely. That was the whole point of GPL -
> > for good or for bad - not to allow such a situation.
>
> ahh, but you are all on the wrong page. Linux is released under the
> LGPL, not GPL.
Ugh..
alexsh:~> head -15 /usr/src/linux/COPYING
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
Linus Torvalds
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
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