Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:50:47 +0300 From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.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: <3C9F0F17.3000500@namesys.com> References: <20020318195817.26106.qmail@web21105.mail.yahoo.com> <3C967EE4.5E60D36@mindspring.com> <3C9E1D92.9040608@namesys.com> <3C9E6CF7.2872C6E7@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: >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 > > Socially indefensible, maybe, logically indefensible, not at all. What is probably legally indefensible is to GPL without offering any additional license at any price (for antitrust reasons). Hans To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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