Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:19:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: davids@webmaster.com, des@flood.ping.uio.no, unknown@riverstyx.net, dkelly@hiwaay.net, morten@seeberg.dk, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <199906152119.OAA23401@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzplndnf82j.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Jun 14, 99 11:24:52 am
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> You've totally missed the point. Linux is under GPL. The GPL forbids > linking GPLed software with non-GPLed software. SGI can't develop XFS > for Linux without using Linux, and to use Linux they have to agree to > the terms of its license, which forbids them to release software that > links with Linux except under the GPL. This does not apply to runtime linking, as employed by kernel modules. Read the Linux License terms specifically. Caldera ships a number of binary-only modules in support of the NetWare for UNIX server on Linux (I know; I worked on that code at Novell, and I worked with the guys who formed Caldera before they left to form it, and I worked with the guy who later did the NWU port to Linux). Kernel modules are allowed to treat the kernel as if it were an LGPL'ed shared library. Now the LGPL doesn't explictly acknowledge dynamic linking, but that's not really an issue for anything but standard shared libraries containing agregate initialized non zero-fill-BSS data. 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
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