[PD] gpl vs creative commons

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Tue Jan 29 16:05:42 CET 2008


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:08 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>
>> but i really don't know
>>
>> mfga.sd
>> IOhannes
> 
> Dynamically linked libraries also trigger the GPL.  For example, most  

yeah; i wanted to stress that shipping a patch with abstraction 
dependencies could even be considered as static linking - because people 
seem to think that static linking enforces the GPL more than dynamic 
linking. (which does say nothing about whether this is true)

> Linux kernel modules are dynamically linked into the kernel these  
> days, and they definitely required to be GPL.

but there _are_ non-GPL'ed kernel-modules.
even though they are disliked.

mfg.,asdr.
IOhannes




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