Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:25:16 +0100 From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence Message-ID: <200410282225.17243.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <1f7.1bdd3cc.2eb2b9b1@aol.com> References: <1f7.1bdd3cc.2eb2b9b1@aol.com>
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On Thursday 28 October 2004 22:08, TM4525@aol.com wrote: Could you please move the discussion to FreeBSD-chat - now > In a message dated 10/28/04 4:49:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > > ph.schulz@gmx.de writes: > > I don't think that Allot modifies the Linux kernel. I wouldn't expect > >them to do so and I don't see an obvious reason why they should (*). > >Obviously some of their custom stuff needs to run inside kernel, but I > >rather think they enhance the kernel with some loadable modules or > >whatever (does Linux have KLDs?). > > Then you either know nothing about programming or nothing about their > products. Do you think they do gigabit bandwidth management, with > features not in the kernel, from user space? Plus, if they were using an > unmodified kernel, why not provide the source? Put it on the machine. > Whats the harm? > > > A while back, I fast-read a post of Linus Torvalds to a mailing list > > > >saying why he thinks that binary-only enhancements to linux must be GPL > >licenced (and I believed the statemant was discussed on a FreeBSD-list > >also). His argument was that by using the kernel headers your work > >automatically becomes a derived work, thus it needs to be licensed under > >the GPL. I seem to recall the discussion was about nVidia's closed > > Modules use headers and are not "GPLed", so clearly you're just > plain wrong. > > Linus is just a big dope anyway, so who cares what he thinks? He's like > Kerry. He thinks whatever is convenient for him to think at the time. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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