From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Subject: Re: What would people think of binary-only software on Linux? Date: 2 Mar 1993 12:51:18 GMT
bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro) writes:
> I maintain that the act of linking the proprietary .o file into
>the GPL'ed kernel would be a violation of the GPL. Otherwise I could get
Under my scenerio, *I'm* not linking, so even under your interpretation,
*I'm* not violating the GPL. (By the way, we don't even have to look
at GPL to see this. If I'm not using GPL'ed code, then it has no
power over me whatsoever. Person A and person B can't make a contract
or license that tells person C what to do unless they already have some
legal power over person C.)
--Tim Smith