[ILUG] games.linux.ie

[Dave Airlie]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, kevin lyda wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:12:08PM +0000, Justin Mason wrote:
> > Paul J Collins said:
> > > >>>>> "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?
> > Yep - Paul's right, I don't think you're on the right track here;
> > otherwise explain how TiVo or NetGEM got away with it!
>
> me three!
>
> the license for linux is the gpl and included in the docs is the explicit
> statement by linus that an app running on linux does not need to be gpl'd.
> and in addition to justin's examples i offer X, netkit, nvi, vim, etc.
> all of those are non-gpl'd apps running on linux that link to the os.
>
> for an embedded system just ship with a cd of the source or a written
> offer to supply one.  a number of years back i read an interview with
> the guy from tivo responsible for dealing with source requests.  they
> get a few and he makes sure the requests are honored.

TiVO have filesystem, so they load apps via that... a lot of embedded
systems don't have filesystems... or things like that ..

Dave.

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