From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 16 05:09:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06836 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 16 May 1998 05:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA06831 for ; Sat, 16 May 1998 05:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03337; Sat, 16 May 1998 07:09:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199805161209.HAA03337@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: commercial software (definitive) In-Reply-To: <19980516130729.30106@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "May 16, 98 01:07:29 pm" To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 07:09:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: jak@cetlink.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eivind Eklund said: > > Another issue of the GPL is how a GPLed kernel extend to LKMs and > userland programs. I know Linus don't want it to cover LKMs/usrland, > but I don't think this issue have been fought in court yet. It would > be interesting to see what would happen if e.g. Microsoft get some > code in the Linux kernel, and then try to sue a competitor for not > releasing source to their products. > Linus added the relief after the code was released under GPL with other peoples contributions incorporated. That is a very iffy thing, and I don't think that he can really give such relief. (It isn't clear that he even "owns" the kernel.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message