From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: ALPHA-pl11 available on nic: C++ support Date: 11 Jul 1993 19:38:39 +0200
In comp.os.linux, article <C9v3uI.3A@bigcomm.gun.de>,
ado@bigcomm.gun.de (Christoph Adomeit) writes:
> >If the driver is compiled with the appropriate C++ headers it will link
> >without any problems.
>
> Which commercial vendor could include the "appropriate C++ headers" without
> violating the GPL ?
Your driver doesn't contain GPL'd code, the GPL code was just used to compile
it. So no conflict exists.
Alternately, if linking to Linux is a GPL violation in itself (which RMS
seems to think it is -- see gnu.misc.discuss), then you've got problems no
matter what language you're using.
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