From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 14 3:51:36 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 ECFE114DB1 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 03:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04526; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:51:13 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:51:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: David Schwartz Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Kelly , Morten Seeberg , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux In-Reply-To: <000301beb652$7042c4b0$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> 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 On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, David Schwartz wrote: > > I don't see as how the kernel module would be "stealing" from the > kernel > at all. From a module's perspective, the kernel just has an > API that it > has to conform to. In fact, a kernel module is only > really a highly > specialized form of executable, and I think it would > be inane to suggest > that all Linux executables be GPL'd because they > happen to use various > kernel hooks in order to operate. > > Actually, I won't put words in his mouth, but the usual argument is that a > module is not a 'work', but a part of one. I still don't see how the XFS filesystem and the implementation of the XFS filesystem (both created by SGI for SGI with only SGI's resources) could be considered a derivative of Linux. If the only issue is the bundling of the XFS source code with Linux, then maybe it'll be necessary for people to download the XFS code separately. I certainly can't see SGI losing all its rights to its own filesystem just because they contributed it to Linux. Nobody wants that to happen. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message