From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 15 14:43:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD57E14C2E for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA06808; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 05:43:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 05:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Terry Lambert Cc: David Schwartz , dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux In-Reply-To: <199906152133.OAA24192@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Naw, RedHat distros all ship with an initrd, so they can load LKM's like filesystems dynamically without requiring a pre-existing accessible filesystem. They don't static link most of their modules. On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > An XFS LKM will only work with a *Linux* kernel. We are talking about an > > LKM, not some generic piece of source code. > > It doesn't matter. > > So long as they don't distribute it linked with the Linux kernel, > then it's not a problem. > > Red Hat, on the other hand, _may_ have a hard time distributing it > as the boot file system for Linux, since it would require linking. > > You can basically link code under any license with code under any > other license, so long as the license doesn't prohibit it. The > GPL merely prohibits distribution of the post-linkage code under > a license other than GPL. > > For runtime linkage as a Linux kernel module, this is not a > problem. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message