Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:24:23 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Morten Seeberg <morten@seeberg.dk>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <4.2.0.56.19990614082039.046a2c30@localhost> In-Reply-To: <xzphfobf5jn.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Tani Hosokawa's message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:43:40 -0700 (PDT)"> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906141737070.1992-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net>
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At 12:19 PM 6/14/99 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >No. Read the GPL, and read what RMS writes about it. Plugins and >loadable modules are derivative work, and must be under GPL. This is Stallman's attitude -- primarily because he crafted the GPL out of spite and malice toward commercial developers. However, I believe that the license under which Linux is published is not EXACTLY the GPL. It contains an exception for loadable kernel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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