Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:19:03 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>, Parity Error <bootup@mail.ru>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates Message-ID: <3C9E6CF7.2872C6E7@mindspring.com> References: <20020318195817.26106.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> <3C967EE4.5E60D36@mindspring.com> <3C9E1D92.9040608@namesys.com>
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Hans Reiser wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > >There are heroic technical measures you could take to get > >around these restrictions (BeOS links GPL'ed code into GPL > >external handler programs, and then talks to them via IPC > >to get around the GPL on come code, for instance), but the > >effort of doing that is probably more than simply writing > >a drop-in replacement from scratch, which is more than just > >licensing the code. > > > I think that BeOS violates the GPL. Linking is not in the license > language. Derivative is. They make the full source code for these programs available. I think that somone who writes non-GPL'ed code that communicates over a data interface to GPL'ed code, and treats the GPL'ed code consistently with the terms of the license, is not in violation. Specifically, if use of a data interface to a GPL'ed program by a non-GPL'ed program made the non-GPL'ed program GPL'ed, then the first time someone used Internet Expolorer ro surf to a web site whose content was served by a GPL'ed web server, IE would become GPL'ed. That's really an indefensible position. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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