[PD] gpl vs creative commons

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:05 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> 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.

Yes, and they are also technically in violation of the GPL, AFAIK.  I  
imagine that Linus and the FSF has not enforced it because it could  
be counterproductive.

.hc

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