[ILUG] games.linux.ie

[Justin Mason]

Donncha O Caoimh said:

> 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.

Hmm... I suppose so, but that's not an "application", it's a device driver
;)

However just after I sent my prev mail, it occurred to me that the GPL is
actually unusable when you're developing for a really low-level embedded
system; ie. one where everything that goes on is effectively running as
part of the kernel and there's no concept of "processes" etc.

I guess that's what you mean too.

Would be worth checking the Cygnus site, as they do low-level embedded
products along those lines.

--j.


> 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?
> >
> 
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