Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 01:46:29 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, "Tani Hosokawa" <unknown@riverstyx.net> Cc: "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, "Morten Seeberg" <morten@seeberg.dk>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <000001beb642$65385540$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <xzpogijfb78.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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FWIW, my lawyers don't agree. If a derived work requires the original work in order to be used, you can steal from the original all you want. For example, if I make a replacement foo.sys for Windows 98, I can steal from Windows 98 all I want so long as the finished foo.sys can only be used with Windows 98. After all, what good does it do to steal something if you can only give it to those who already have it? What would Microsoft's damages be? Similarly, a kernel module may have to steal from the kernel, but since it can only be used with the kernel, the same rule applies. DS > I hope they won't be too busy "reviewing the terms of the XFS license" > to read the GPL and discover that it requires them to release XFS > under GPL, even if it is "not part of the kernel but rather a loadable > module". > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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