Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 05:43:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, dkelly@hiwaay.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SGI Donated Journalised FS Source to Linux Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906160541550.6499-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <199906152133.OAA24192@usr01.primenet.com>
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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
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