Re: Controversy over dynamic linking -- how to end the panic

[Alan Cox]

> Pardon me, but what does "Oracle Corp.'s database becomes GPL" mean in the
> above 3)? (I'm asking to you since you seem to agree).  Even if the
> database is found to be linked with a GPLed piece of SW, this doesn't make
> it (the database) GPLed, it just breaks Oracle's licence on the GPL SW.

Right. And anyone who claims that Oracle is a derivative work of the Linux
Kernel has a few screws loose.

It no more belongs to Linus because it runs on Linux than to Bill Gates because
it runs on NT