From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Additional clauses to GPL in network drivers
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:32:12 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312080832.hB88WCEG000384@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3brqkioyl.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl>
Quote from Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>:
> John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com> writes:
>
> > "This file is not a complete program and may only be used when the
> > entire operating system is licensed under the GPL".
> >
> > as
> > grep -C 1 "only be used when"
> >
> > in drivers/net will confirm.
> >
> > *Please*, can we resist the temptation to 'play' with licenses in this
> > way? I suspect this extra clause was added just to clarify what the
> > GPL already says,
>
> I don't think so - GPL doesn't restrict the _use_, only the distribution.
OK, more accurately what I meant was that I suspect that the original _intent_ of adding that clause was to clarify the GPL, and that the extra clause fails to do that.
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-08 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-07 15:15 Additional clauses to GPL in network drivers John Bradford
2003-12-07 16:15 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-12-08 8:32 ` John Bradford [this message]
2003-12-08 0:29 ` David Schwartz
2003-12-08 1:00 ` Alex Belits
2003-12-08 2:32 ` David Schwartz
2003-12-08 3:11 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2003-12-08 3:51 ` David Schwartz
2003-12-08 6:40 ` Shawn Willden
2003-12-08 20:57 ` Matthias Andree
2003-12-07 17:15 Xose Vazquez Perez
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