GPL and Python modules.

[Robert Kern]

Tim Churches wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:12, Robert Kern wrote:

>>Whether just using system calls is simply "normal use" for a GPLd OS 
>>kernel or this is simply a special exception to the GPL for Linux only 
>>is something that a court will have to decide. But such a suit would 
>>have to be about some other GPL kernel, not Linux.
> 
> 
> Looks like it is a special exception for the Linux kernel (or whatever
> other Linux code is distributed with this COPYING file. Doesn't apply to
> other GPLed code.

Well, not necessarily. It certainly isn't phrased as one. It is at least 
a statement of someone's (Linus's?) belief that standard applications 
that only use system calls and running on Linux are not derivative works 
with respect to Linux. Are Windows programs actual derivative works of 
the Windows kernel? Does the Windows EULA make a statement about the 
derivative status of applications?

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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