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

[Alexander Terekhov <alexander.terekhov@gmail.com>]

Yorick Cool wrote:
[...]
> The reasoning is pretty simple. As Sean said, it is based on the 
> understanding that the GPL is a contract. 

Yeah. Except that everybody and his dog knows that the FSF's 
position is that GPL != contract. Moglen and RMS now call it 
"The Constitution" (of the GNU Republic, I suppose). 

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/msg/41227555ca18833b

C'mon, the GPL drafter RMS is on record:

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/msg/8464781e78e421cb

regards,
alexander.