spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules
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When you GPL a piece of software, you sign over your rights to the FSF. Therefore, there is very little that can be done about this; from a legal perspective, the FSF
_itself
determines what is and what isn't construed as a derived work.
Microsoft would _love_ the world to think that GPL is like that.
I`m sorry this is a plain FUD.
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Samium Gromoff
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When you GPL a piece of software, you sign over your rights to the FSF. Therefore, there is very little that can be done about this; from a legal perspective, the FSF
_itself
determines what is and what isn't construed as a derived work.Microsoft would _love_ the world to think that GPL is like that. I`m sorry this is a plain FUD.
I think this restriction (the need for copyright assignment) only applies to code 'incorporated in FSF projects', whatever that means. See the GPL FAQ for a rather vague explanation.
Are 'FSF projects' the packages that can be downloaded from ftp.gnu.org?
mark
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