Re: [PATCH 2.5.5] do export vmalloc_to_page to modules...

[David Schwartz]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 20:27:18 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox wrote:
>>    The GPL permits you to modify and use GPL'd code however you wish 
>>provided
>>you don't distribute it. The GPL permits you to modify, use, and distribute
>>GPL'd code however you like provided you make the source available.

>(subject to the other conditions it lays down)

>In the US I believe so. In the UK at least loading the code into memory has
>been ruled an act of copying by a court.

	Doesn't matter. The GPL only requires you to offer the source to people you 
offer the executables to. So if I copy it and distribute it to myself, I only 
have to give the source to myself. Guess what, I already have it. So I'm not 
sure why it matters whether I'm copying or not. (See, for example, clause 6 
of the GPL)

	Do you really think the GPL stands for digital rights management systems 
embedded in all your programs that you may not tamper with under threat of 
law? This doesn't sound like freedom to me. If you contribute to a GPLed 
project, then you get grant precisely the rights the GPL says you grant and 
you may impose no restrictions other than those the GPL imposes.

	The GPL imposes no restrictions on modifications whatsoever. What could be 
clearer?

	DS