From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 14 8:44:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA6D15275 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-101.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.101] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA28201; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:44:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37652341.F663700D@airnet.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:44:01 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schwartz Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux References: <000001beb65c$812bf260$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Schwartz wrote: > Forgive me for making an argument with which I do not agree, but I think I > can do it clearly: > > The XFS filesystem would not be useful alone, right? > > You would need the Linux kernel to use it. > > So the XFS filesystem is not a 'work'. The Linux kernel with the module > loaded into it is one 'work'. This is clearly true if they were compiled > together, but there is no legal distinction between compile time and link > time. > > Again, if there's a better way to express it, please let me know. But any > first-year law student can point out the 400 holes in this. I think we're all missing the point: They are releasing it for the wrong OS! -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message