Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:46:38 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: add ext2fs to the module list in modules/Makefile Message-ID: <20030127224638.GA31331@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030127224012.GB903@ratsnest.hole> References: <20030127211441.GC1043@ratsnest.hole> <20030127213635.GA30541@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20030127224012.GB903@ratsnest.hole>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:40:12AM +0200, Enache Adrian wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:36:35PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > Portions of the ext2fs source are covered by the GPL. You > > need to rebuild the kernel with "option EXT2FS". The > > FreeBSD cannot create a ext2fs.ko and comply with the GPL. > > This is weird. > Builting it as part of kernel is ok, but separate, as a module > isn't. There a linking clausing in the GPL, which one can interpret to mean that loading ext2fs.ko into the kernel would cause the entire kernel to be tainted by the GPL. > > However, FreeBSD builds by default (as modules) the maestro3 > sound driver and the gnu fpu emulator which are GPL too. > gnu fpu appears to be dual licensed software, and covered by a BSD type license for FreeBSD's use. Don't know about maestro3. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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