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Date:      Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:42:53 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Michael Reifenberger <root@nihil.plaut.de>
Cc:        <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/modules Makefile src/sys/modules/ext2fs    Makefile
Message-ID:  <20010914202313.T18027-100000@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010914085632.P1270-100000@nihil>

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On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Michael Reifenberger wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:
> ...
> > This module was intentionally not supplied due to copyright issues.
> > I think its OK iff it is not built for releases.
> I didn't know the PR.
> ...
> Is there a NO_RELEASE or RESTRICTED knob for Makefiles I can use
> or could I conditionalize for make RELEASE or shall I comment
> out the ext2fs line in the modules/Makefile?

I thin a knob for ext2fs alone would be OK (ENABLE_EXT2FS, defaulting
to unset).  You would have to do more infrastructure work for a
general RESTRICTED knob.

> On the other side the copyright issues (isn't it the GPL) shouldnt
> apply for modules since they are not bound to BSD copyrighted software
> or am I wrong?

rms once said that the GPL applies to things linked dynamically.  I
mostly agree.  Dynamic linkage is not fundamentally different from
static linkage (it's just an implementation detail), and the GPL
apparently applies to static linkage (otherwise the LGPL wouldn't
exist).

Bruce


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