From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: arjanv@redhat.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
paulmck@us.ibm.com, hch@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:04:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4033A91B.3030801@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1077108694.4479.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
I should know better than to stir up a hornets nest
by discussing GPL issues on this list... :)
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 01:19, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>Neat, but it's hard to see the relevance of this to your patch.
>>I don't see any licensing issues with the patch because the filesystem
>>which needs it clearly meets Linus's "this is not a derived work"
>>criteria.
>
> it does?
...
> it needs no changes to the core kernel? *buzz*
Actually, this would tend towards an interpretation that
it was NOT a derived work.
That is, if a the Linux kernel must be modified in order
to run with a piece of software, that's one indicator
that the piece of software (when standing alone) may not
be derived from the kernel. I am purposely avoiding the
"but what about when it's linked" argument.
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Co-Chair
CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer
Sony Electronics
E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com
=============================
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: arjanv@redhat.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
paulmck@us.ibm.com, hch@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:04:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4033A91B.3030801@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1077108694.4479.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
I should know better than to stir up a hornets nest
by discussing GPL issues on this list... :)
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 01:19, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>Neat, but it's hard to see the relevance of this to your patch.
>>I don't see any licensing issues with the patch because the filesystem
>>which needs it clearly meets Linus's "this is not a derived work"
>>criteria.
>
> it does?
...
> it needs no changes to the core kernel? *buzz*
Actually, this would tend towards an interpretation that
it was NOT a derived work.
That is, if a the Linux kernel must be modified in order
to run with a piece of software, that's one indicator
that the piece of software (when standing alone) may not
be derived from the kernel. I am purposely avoiding the
"but what about when it's linked" argument.
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Co-Chair
CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer
Sony Electronics
E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com
=============================
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2004-02-16 19:09 Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-16 19:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-17 2:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-17 2:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-17 7:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 7:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 12:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-17 12:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 12:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-18 14:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 14:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 15:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 15:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 23:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 23:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 12:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 12:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 18:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 18:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 19:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 19:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 13:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 13:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 3:17 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-20 3:17 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-20 21:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-19 0:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 0:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 18:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 18:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 9:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 9:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 18:32 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 18:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-19 19:16 ` viro
2004-02-19 19:16 ` viro
2004-02-19 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 18:59 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-19 18:59 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-20 1:27 ` David Schwartz
2004-02-19 9:11 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-19 9:11 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-19 8:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 8:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-03-04 5:51 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-04 5:51 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-19 10:29 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 10:29 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 9:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 9:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 11:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-19 11:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 11:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-18 18:04 ` Tim Bird [this message]
2004-02-18 18:04 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-19 20:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 20:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 22:06 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-02-19 22:06 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-02-19 22:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 22:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 16:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 16:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 2:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 2:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 19:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 19:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 5:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 5:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 12:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 12:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 20:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 20:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 14:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 14:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 23:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 23:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 16:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 16:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-21 3:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-21 3:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-21 19:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-22 23:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 21:04 ` [RFC] Distributed mmap API Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 21:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 19:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 19:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 19:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 19:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 22:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 3:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 3:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 3:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 3:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 13:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 13:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-04 18:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-03-04 18:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 21:17 ` Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-20 21:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-20 22:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 22:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 23:56 ` GFS requirements (was: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range) Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-21 3:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-21 14:17 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-21 19:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-22 10:37 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-24 18:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-18 12:12 ` Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Dominik Kubla
2004-02-18 12:12 ` Dominik Kubla
[not found] ` <24651326.1077037044@42.150.104.212.access.eclipse.net.uk>
2004-02-18 13:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 22:22 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-17 22:22 ` David Weinehall
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