Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:27:42PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 13:19 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > The question of whether or not something which *could* be linked into
> > the kernel is a derived work is a very different question
> 
> Its also a question that falls into the area of conspiracy to commit an
> offence in some legal domains rather than being about 'interface
> copyright'.

Conspiracy to commit what offence?  There's nothing wrong with linking
GPL'ed code with propietary code, in the privacy of your own home (or
server).  The offence only happens when you distribute the resulting
derived work....

						- Ted
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