Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Dec 06 2005 - 15:18:49 EST


On Maw, 2005-12-06 at 14:38 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Conspiracy to commit what offence? There's nothing wrong with linking
> GPL'ed code with propietary code, in the privacy of your own home (or
> server). The offence only happens when you distribute the resulting
> derived work....

In many countries moving the data from hard disk to memory is copying,
ditto to cache, and that is established caselaw.

Alan

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