On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:38:17PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:22:59PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 07:58:39PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > Does copyright law see any difference between shared library linking and > > > pipe/corba/socket linking ? > > > > > > Does copyright law see any difference between calling library, when it is > > > .so object/kernel module/kernel buildin ? > > > > No and no. Copyright law does not talk about technical or implementation > > details. > > So why people tend to think that piping is ok, but using .so isn't ?
They're confused? > Or using proprietary kernel is ok, proprietary .so isn't ? > I think the GPL has an exception for systems using a proprietary kernel and system libraries. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

