Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:11:24 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "David Kelly" <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <000001beb6e5$21f4f420$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <199906150011.TAA34872@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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> "David Schwartz" writes: > > > > 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. > > You would need to use *a* kernel to use it. SGI already uses it with > Irix. An XFS LKM will only work with a *Linux* kernel. We are talking about an LKM, not some generic piece of source code. > So by the above argument, sendmail, XFree86, perl, etc, are all useless > without a kernel to support them. Therefore they too must be infected > with GPL? :-) The sendmail code does not contain any part of the Linux kernel inside it. The argument would be (I think) that an LKM does. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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