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Re: GPL, yet again. (The kernel is a lot like a shared library)



On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:22:27PM +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Alexander> Yorick Cool wrote:
Alexander> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:32:13PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
Alexander> > Michael> On 9/9/05, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote:
Alexander> > Michael> > I am acutely disinterested in that debate because it's long and
Alexander> > Michael> > boring, but there's a lot of law professors who like it and think that
Alexander> > Michael> > the GPL does work. I suggest you go argue with them instead.
Alexander> > Michael>
Alexander> > Michael> Name one other than Mr. Moglen.
Alexander> >
Alexander> > Larry Lessig?
Alexander> 
Alexander> CC share-alike licenses don't try to infect compilations (collective
Alexander> works).

So? That changes nothing to the fact Lessig considers the GPL -- the license we're talking
about -- covers dynamic linking.

Alexander> 
Alexander> > Larry Rosen?

I said myself that he was skeptical of the FSF's positions.

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