[ILUG] games.linux.ie

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Applications here could be device drivers. The GPL has a special clause
for operating systems IIRC that lets you link binary drivers to a GPLed
operating system kernel such as Linux.

Donncha.


Paul J Collins wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "DA" == Dave Airlie <airlied at csn.ul.ie> writes:
> 
>     DA> the only thing I dislike about GPL is in embedded systeems,
>     DA> yuo cannot use a GPL OS linked agsinst a non-GPL app (which it
>     DA> may be illegal to GPL , codecs... etc..)
> 
> I am utterly ignorant of embedded systems, but since when do
> applications "link to" OSes at all?
>