Re: Common misunderstanding of the GPL

"edamjr" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], "Peter D. Ward" <pdw@m...> 
wrote: 
> Some added potential complications can be seen in Linus' take on 
> "derived works" as that term might apply to kernel modules.
> "Basically:
>  - anything that was written with Linux in mind (whether it then 
_also_
>    works on other operating systems or not) is clearly partially a 
derived
>    work.

That's an odd concept; 'partially a derived work' sounds like 'a 
little bit pregnant' - either ya are, or ya aren't...

Mike



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