GPL and Python modules.

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 18:12 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:

> Okay, a not-so-retarded reply this time:
> 
>  From COPYING in the Linux kernel distribution:
> 
> """
>     NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
>   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
>   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
>   Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
>   Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
>   kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
> """

Good enough.  It doesn't address licensing issues with so-called system
libraries (i.e. libc, et al [and yes, I know many of them are LGPL -
that isn't really the point]), but it at least provides exception for
the kernel.

Regards,
Cliff

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Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net>