Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

From: Trent Waddington
Date: Sat Feb 17 2007 - 22:27:22 EST


On 2/18/07, Michael K. Edwards <medwards.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you can
read that and still tolerate the stench of the FSF's argument that
linking against readline means they 0wn your source code, you have a
stronger stomach than I.

Such a strange attitude.. to go to all this effort to quote carefully
and correctly one set of people and to then total misconstrue the
words of another.

The FSF's argument in regards to readline is that you may not
distribute readline with proprietary software linked to it. They
don't claim they "0wn" your source code.

Trent
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