On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 14:14 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
Then, you think that the "Balkanisation menace" is only smelly FUD, and that GPLv2 and v3 can cohesist without problems ???
I'm not an expert, but we can have a GNU toolchain v3 and a Kernel v2 ???
Man I can't believe what I see. On what platform do you think the gcc, emacs, glibc, etc.. has been developed on before Linux existed?
It is a honest question.
Kernel space and user space are 2 very well separated world with very clear boundaries and public interfaces.
They aren't as clear as you might think, the "public interfaces" can be copyrightable. Many people think that using a GPLed library with a GPL incompatible program is ok, for the exact same reason, it has nothing to do with clear bounders or public interfaces, but what actually constitutes a deriviate work, and that simply means if you use some copyrightable bits.
When I say public interfaces I mean interface that has been made available for public use without license "problems". The kernel has tons of private interfaces too.
Simo.