Joerg Schilling wrote:
Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
If you combine ZFS and Linux, you create a permitted "collective
work" and the GPL cannot extend it's rules to the CDDLd separate and independend
work ZFS of course.
Which countries' copyright laws would permit that explicitly even when
some of the components' licenses prohibit it?
Fortunately, Europe and the USA declare the same parts of the GPL void,
these parts would prevent such a combination. <snip> First, I was not aware that the US had declared any part of the GPL null and void. Second, just to play Eris... which *version* of the GPL are you talking about in this arguement, 1.x, 2.x, or 3.x?
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
First, I was not aware that the US had declared any part of the GPL null
Just ask US lawyers..... one of them sits on the other side of the corridor of my office, another is the well known Lawrence Rosen.
For Europe check the reasoning of the cases from Harald Welte. One of them is very obvious when mentioning that the judge intentionally did look only at a single sentence from the GPL in order not to endanger the rights of Harald Welte.
and void. Second, just to play Eris... which *version* of the GPL are you talking about in this arguement, 1.x, 2.x, or 3.x?
Add GPL-v0 for the GCC from 1986.....
You should know what GPL version we are talking if you understand what we discuss.
Jörg
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