Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:21:23PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> The kernel has an exemption. This has been pointed out more than
> once.
Well, Linus claims the kernel has an exemption, though I've never
heard an explanation of how Linus has any authority to do so ...
(For example, Linux contains the driver portion of ALSA, and I
see no exceptions in alsa-driver/COPYING, so there's no reason to
believe people submitting driver code to ALSA intend to grant any
such exception, if such a thing really is required. On the other
hand--for this example only--the fact that alsa-libs is LGPL makes
it obvious that alsa-driver is *intended* to allow use by GPL-
incompatible code.)
--
Glenn Maynard
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