From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 21 11:45:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03944 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03901 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 11:45:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA26417; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:43:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:43:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Eivind Eklund cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on the Intel-UNIX standard In-Reply-To: <19980921133218.15796@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , > > There's no need for the reference implementation to be GPL-contaminated > > - it can be shipped as patches to the Linux kernel rather than > > integrated with it, and those patches need not be GPL'ed. > > I don't think this is correct. I believe the patches would count as a > derived work, and thus would be covered by the GPL. :-( Isn't it ironic that the loudest 'free software' advocates would choose a license that is not. -- | Matthew N. Dodd |This space | '78 Datsun 280Z | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net |is for rent| '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message