Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]]

[Olivier Galibert]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:38:57AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> That has no bearing on the legalities.  A version of the kernel can't
> force the GPL on a driver that works with that version of the kernel
> because you can pull that driver out and drop in another.  A great example
> is the eepro driver, there is Becker's version and the Intel version.
> Any judge who wasn't fooled by Microsoft priced lawyers would clearly
> see the boundary and make a ruling that the GPL can't cross over it.

So you're saying the LGPL and the GPL mean the same thing for
libraries?  That, for instance, you can handle Qt as if it was LGPL?

  OG.
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