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From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: 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 04:15:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051223041522.ac36635d.diegocg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051223025638.GA31381@taniwha.stupidest.org>

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...

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From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: 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 04:15:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051223041522.ac36635d.diegocg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051223025638.GA31381@taniwha.stupidest.org>

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...
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-23  3:15 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 [this message]
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
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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