Re: Is this a flagrant GPL violation?

From: Kyler Laird (Kyler_at_news.Lairds.org)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:19:55 GMT

Thank you for all of the informative responses. Bottom line - yes,
I was missing something. Mostly I was ignoring the distinction
between GPL and LGPL.

I had just been reading a thread about binary kernel modules and I
was thinking in terms of some of the arguments given there about
the use of APIs. I also didn't realized that GCC could be used to
compile proprietary code. These aren't things that had been a
concern to me.

I appreciate the education.

--kyler

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