'GPL encumbrance problems' (jdow)

[Mike McCarty]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 1/23/06, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>From: "Mike McCarty" <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>>>John Summerfied wrote:
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>>If I employ a BSD-style licence, then you can choose to use a similar
>>>>licence yourself, to use a proprietary licence and to not provide your
>>>>source, or even to distribute _your_ software, even as a derived work,
>>>>under the terms of the GPL.
>>>>
>>>>If, on another hand, I grant you use under the terms of the GPL, then
>>>>you are still free to write your software, but if you link your program
>>>>with mine (isn't that what the headers are for?), then any distribution
>>>>you do must be under the terms of the GPL, and you must (if asked)
>>>>produce the source on demand.
>>>
>>>AFAIK, this has not been tested in court, and ISTR hearing that there is
>>>court precedent that linking a program with a library does
>>>not (LGPL language notwithstanding) create a "derived work".
>>
>>It does, however, mean that you must abide by the terms of use and
>>distribution for the library. The new terms in GPL3 make it EXTREMELY
>>unlikely that life will go on as before in the GPL world. There will
>>be no further linked in video drivers in precompiled form, for example.
>>Wording in GPL3 prohibits this. So either Linux does not adopt GPL3 and
>>refuses to include any GPL3 code or Linux dies for lack of specialized
>>driver support. RMS is, predictably, a silly turd.
> 
> 
> Quotes from the license text, please?  And regardless, Linux can't be
> licensed under anything other than the GPL (ala current version). 
> Mostly for reasons of being unable to get sign off from the thousands
> of people that hold copyright to license it under anything else.
> 
> It's obvious the hate the GPL so please do us a favor and stop
> consorting with us unwashed heathens who think it's a pretty good
> idea.  You're being, predicably, a silly turd.

Oh, dear, we're getting close to calling each other Nazis.

Mike
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