Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 05:36:45 EST


On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 03:49, David McIlwraith wrote:
> How should it? The compiler (specifically, the C preprocessor) includes the
> code, thus it is not the AUTHOR violating the GPL.

It is if the AUTHOR then decides to distribute the resulting binary
which would contain a mix of GPL and non GPL work..
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