From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Mar 24 16:19:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC85D37B404; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:19:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0344.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.89] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16pICq-0005RO-00; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:19:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3C9E6CF7.2872C6E7@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:19:03 -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: Hans Reiser Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, Greg Lehey , Chris Mason , Josh MacDonald , Parity Error , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: metadata update durability ordering/soft updates References: <20020318195817.26106.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> <3C967EE4.5E60D36@mindspring.com> <3C9E1D92.9040608@namesys.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 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