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Re: [GPL] No linking with proprietary programs: where?



On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:22:59PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 07:58:39PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > Does copyright law see any difference between shared library linking and
> > pipe/corba/socket linking ?
> > 
> > Does copyright law see any difference between calling library, when it is
> > .so object/kernel module/kernel buildin ?
> 
> No and no. Copyright law does not talk about technical or implementation
> details.

So why people tend to think that piping is ok, but using .so isn't ?
Or using proprietary kernel is ok, proprietary .so isn't ?


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