From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Mar 18 16:43: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C55437B400; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:43:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0273.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.18] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16n7i2-0007Mx-00; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:42:39 -0800 Message-ID: <3C96896A.F9F0A36A@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:42:18 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Chris Mason , Josh MacDonald , Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: GPL license issues (was: [reiserfs-dev]i Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates) References: <20020318174641.A1153@hpdi.ath.cx> <3C9676B4.49A76589@mindspring.com> <20020319095746.D93909@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > It can not be distributed compiled into a kernel distributed on > > CDROM, legally, because of the license conflict, but it can be used > > in an after-market fashion by an end user. > > No. This is wrong. If someone were to do this, they would have to > distribute the kernel binary under GPL. No other changes would apply. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt 2.b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License. Section 3 requires that you place the source code itself under the GPL. That's not possible. Section 4 voids your rights to the GPL'ed code, if you do not comply with section 3. See also "GPL-Incompatible, Free Software Licenses": http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses Specifically, the 4 clause UCB license is listed as "incompatible". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message