From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 15 14:33:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5021541E for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:33:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22038; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:33:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd021849; Tue Jun 15 14:33:08 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24192; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:33:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199906152133.OAA24192@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:33:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <000001beb6e5$21f4f420$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> from "David Schwartz" at Jun 14, 99 09:11:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > An XFS LKM will only work with a *Linux* kernel. We are talking about an > LKM, not some generic piece of source code. It doesn't matter. So long as they don't distribute it linked with the Linux kernel, then it's not a problem. Red Hat, on the other hand, _may_ have a hard time distributing it as the boot file system for Linux, since it would require linking. You can basically link code under any license with code under any other license, so long as the license doesn't prohibit it. The GPL merely prohibits distribution of the post-linkage code under a license other than GPL. For runtime linkage as a Linux kernel module, this is not a problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message