Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:28:17 -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: <4.2.0.56.19990614082805.044b4380@localhost>
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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 modules (or LKMs). Of course, advocates of the GPL often take advantage of its size and confusing language to spread FUD about it. They represent it as "the" open source license and do not mention the exception for LKMs in Linux. They may hornswoggle SGI into releasing its code under the GPL when in fact this is not necessary. I would not put it past Stallman to do this; he seems to believe that the end justifies the means. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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