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Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?



On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:44:37AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote:
> @ 16/06/2004 17:56 : wrote Andrew Suffield :
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:22:34PM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote:
> >
> >> One can argue that the GPL linking clause (linking with this library
> >> a derivative work makes)
> >
> >
> > There is no point discussing this issue with you until you comprehend
> > the GPL. Go and read it until you understand that there is no such
> > clause.
> >
> 
> I'm sorry, You are Wrong(TM). It's right there in  the "postamble" ("how
> to use GPL"), the very last paragraph of [1]:
> 
> QUOTE
> 
>      This General Public License does not permit incorporating your
>      program into proprietary programs.  If your program is a
>      subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit
>      linking proprietary applications with the library.  If this is
>      what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License
>      instead of this License.
> 
> QUOTED

That text is explicitly non-normative.

*plonk*

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