On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 05:15, Branden Robinson wrote: > I am uncomfortable with some of the ramifications but I am also > uncomfortable with totally declawing the GNU GPL by adopting and > interpretation of it that would let people wrapper and language-bind > their way out of the copyleft commons.
At some point, we've got to draw a line where it's de-clawed. After all, I think we all agree that if a shell script calls GNU grep[0], it isn't required to be under the GPL. So, is encapsulating code in the kernel's execve interface always OK? [0] Which, btw, has many extensions over POSIX or BSD grep, so there is not, AFAIK, an alternative implementation. Alternatively, put "gcc" or your favorite GPL program in its place.