Re: GPL issues

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> That's almost forcing the person who wrote the kernel part to write
> a GPL'd program JUST because there is a proprietary program using
> his stuff - and THAT is insane.

If the kernel part does something, which can work _separately_, i.e.,
do something useful without the proprietary program, then it's very
likely OK. Otherwise, the proprietery program cannot be considered
a work separate from the kernel part.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... ..oh wait, he does.
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