From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
mrmacman_g4@mac.com, legal@lists.gnumonks.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
garbageout@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:30:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051223033007.GJ27525@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051223041522.ac36635d.diegocg@gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:22AM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:56:38 -0800,
> Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> escribió:
>
> > That's entirely debatable and I would recommend the original poster
> > seek legal advice on this as there are many people who will claim
> > loading GPLd modules is paramount to linking and therefore this is a
> > violation.
>
> So, a GPL application running on top of a BSD-licensed kernel
> (or library) is illegal? I doubt it...
application != kernel module
And your example would anyways not be a problem since GPL + BSD = GPL
(assuming the 3 clause BSD licence).
cu
Adrian
--
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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
mrmacman_g4@mac.com, legal@lists.gnumonks.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
garbageout@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:30:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051223033007.GJ27525@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051223041522.ac36635d.diegocg@gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:22AM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:56:38 -0800,
> Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> escribió:
>
> > That's entirely debatable and I would recommend the original poster
> > seek legal advice on this as there are many people who will claim
> > loading GPLd modules is paramount to linking and therefore this is a
> > violation.
>
> So, a GPL application running on top of a BSD-licensed kernel
> (or library) is illegal? I doubt it...
application != kernel module
And your example would anyways not be a problem since GPL + BSD = GPL
(assuming the 3 clause BSD licence).
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-23 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-22 16:08 blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers Robert W. Fuller
2005-12-22 18:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-22 20:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-22 21:46 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-12-22 23:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-23 2:56 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-12-23 3:15 ` Diego Calleja
2005-12-23 3:15 ` Diego Calleja
2005-12-23 3:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-12-23 3:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-23 3:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-23 4:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-12-23 3:30 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-12-23 3:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-23 15:35 ` Ben Slusky
2005-12-23 19:34 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-12-23 20:16 ` Scott Mansfield
2005-12-23 22:00 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-12-24 1:48 ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-24 2:41 ` Peter Williams
2005-12-24 3:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 11:09 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 11:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 13:18 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 13:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-04 17:46 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 23:03 ` Gene Heskett
2006-01-04 22:43 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-04 14:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 14:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-04 15:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 17:42 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-05 17:52 ` Bryan Henderson
2006-01-05 17:30 ` Bryan Henderson
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