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Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition now onlineLinux Device Drivers, Third Edition now onlinePosted Mar 16, 2005 1:23 UTC (Wed) by socket (guest, #43)In reply to: Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition now online by ballombe Parent article: Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition now online
So, you're right that it doesn't mention linking... much. "This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library."
But that was just one example of my point. Maybe the fact that the GPL uses the word "Program" more than fifty times, and the word "document" once, and only in the context that "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."
You don't suppose a different license might be more appropriate for a document than a license that doesn't even refer to the work it's licensing as a document?
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Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition now online Posted Mar 17, 2005 21:14 UTC (Thu) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link] The word "Program" is not the same as the word "program". "Program" is a technical term for the scope of the GPL that referrs to the work being licensed. It just happens that most Programs are also programs, but it's perfectly acceptable for a Program to be something other than a program.
Consider the analogous "float an_integer = 3.14".
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