Date: 14 Dec 2001 23:48:52 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM's intentions with JFS (was: IBM suing (was: RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD)) Message-ID: <b8itb89b4r.tb8@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011215103210.G85108@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <1id71idej9.71i@localhost.localdomain> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <20011213051012.Y56723-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <3C1875D6.5DE4F996@mindspring.com> <3C186381.6AB07090@yahoo.com> <20011214122837.O3448@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C19807D.C441F084@mindspring.com> <20011215103210.G85108@monorchid.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> writes: > On Thursday, 13 December 2001 at 23:49:37 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > > > If the loader, then the kernel too. > > No, of course not. That would imply that anything you run under the > kernel also has to be GPLd. The loader and kernel are two very > different beasts. You can load FreeBSD with the Linux loader. Does > that make FreeBSD GPLd? Maybe the GPL IS that contageous; how can one know? But I was just viewing the loader, kernel, and JFS module, stored together there in a small single-purpose portion of the disk, which loads and runs as a single program as nothing essentially different than a statically linked program and therefor would seem to require licensing as a whole. I hate to think that such combining of software creates a derivative, but it seems to be the law. Another reason to avoid nasty licenses. You're last question is intriguing. Who is authorized to say that the LILO-FreeBSD combination isn't a single, derived program, worthy of a single license? The GPL's narrow exception for OS-related software surely doesn't apply here, not the least because it says it doesn't apply when they are distributed together. Yikes. It's a good thing there's no big money involved in all this and most people don't care. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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