Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 03:08:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian McGroarty <bvmcg@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <19990614100831.6933.rocketmail@web1006.mail.yahoo.com>
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The concept of linkage in offering XFS as a LKM is no different than that for the sourceless device drivers offered by some vendors, Creative Labs among. Presumably this has been through their legal dept. Unless quite a few vendors are in for a nasty wake up call, DES is correct below. Parting thought: Even if this were an issue, the GPL is still untested in court. The concensus among many is that it won't survive when it's eventually put to trial. --- Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> wrote: > "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes: > > > 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". > > > > 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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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