From: Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>
To: Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>
Cc: ninja@slaphack.com, reiser@namesys.com, mjr@dsl.pipex.com,
debian-legal@lists.debian.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: reiser4 non-free?
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 09:44:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6zpy8ke.fsf@aule.evenmere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040506.083242.41632888.wlandry@ucsd.edu> (Walter Landry's message of "Thu, 06 May 2004 08:32:42 -0400 (EDT)")
Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> writes:
> David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
>> First and foremost: Hans, this is your project. Someone willing to
>> replace entire APIs with things that feel like files is obviously not
>> afraid of creating something new. So at the end of the day, it
>> shouldn't matter too much that it's in Debian Non-free, especially if
>> (assuming I heard correctly) XFree86 is also non-free.
>
> People seem to be missing this issue, so I'll bring it up again. The
> problem is not so much whether the license is free or not. The
> problem is that it is incompatible with the GPL. That means that
> Debian can't distribute it _at all_. Not in main, not in non-free.
> Not at all.
>
> The license may be perfectly free (e.g. the IBM CPL), but if it is
> incompatible with the GPL, then Debian can't distribute it.
You're right, Walter, and thank you for the clarification. To clarify
further, Debian can't distribute a derivative work of the Linux kernel
which is not licensed under the GPL.
-Brian
--
Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 145+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-24 19:32 Fwd: reiser4 non-free? Domenico Andreoli
2004-04-25 16:13 ` MJ Ray
2004-04-30 4:50 ` Hans Reiser
2004-04-30 5:56 ` Don Armstrong
2004-04-30 11:48 ` Hans Reiser
2004-04-30 14:12 ` Jeremy Hankins
2004-04-30 15:33 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-04-30 16:52 ` Hans Reiser
2004-04-30 16:58 ` Jeremy Hankins
2004-05-01 19:40 ` Steve Langasek
2004-04-30 17:07 ` David Masover
2004-04-30 17:58 ` Hubert Chan
2004-04-30 22:53 ` David Masover
2004-05-02 19:46 ` MJ Ray
2004-04-30 15:13 ` Scott James Remnant
2004-04-30 17:43 ` Don Armstrong
2004-05-02 21:02 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-02 21:55 ` Don Armstrong
2004-05-02 22:37 ` Martin List-Petersen
2004-05-03 17:04 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-03 17:19 ` Martin List-Petersen
2004-05-03 17:30 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-03 6:58 ` mjt
2004-05-03 17:11 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-03 17:21 ` mjt
2004-05-03 17:35 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-03 17:49 ` mjt
2004-05-03 18:00 ` Chris Dukes
2004-05-04 16:01 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 17:57 ` Martin Dickopp
2004-05-04 15:50 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 19:43 ` mjt
2004-05-03 22:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-03 16:35 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-03 18:16 ` Mahesh T. Pai
2004-05-03 18:55 ` Don Armstrong
2004-05-03 23:06 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-03 21:33 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-03 21:53 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-05-04 0:00 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-04 7:52 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-05-04 16:20 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 16:45 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-04 17:02 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 17:38 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-04 17:47 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 18:15 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-06 18:53 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 19:00 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-05-06 19:14 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 19:22 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 21:19 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-06 23:21 ` Brian Thomas Sniffen
2004-05-06 23:29 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-07 7:04 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 18:00 ` Brian Thomas Sniffen
2004-05-06 2:52 ` David Masover
2004-05-06 12:32 ` Walter Landry
2004-05-06 13:44 ` Brian Thomas Sniffen [this message]
2004-05-06 14:36 ` Domenico Andreoli
2004-05-06 16:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-06 16:43 ` Brian Thomas Sniffen
2004-05-06 18:10 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 18:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-05-06 18:59 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 23:16 ` Steve Langasek
2004-05-06 23:18 ` Brian Thomas Sniffen
2004-05-07 18:18 ` Raul Miller
2004-05-06 22:55 ` Brian Thomas Sniffen
2004-05-07 1:21 ` Jeremy Hankins
2004-05-07 2:12 ` Brian Thomas Sniffen
2004-05-12 13:31 ` Jeremy Hankins
2004-05-07 6:47 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-08 13:50 ` Sami Liedes
2004-05-06 23:23 ` Matthew Palmer
2004-05-06 23:40 ` Raul Miller
2004-05-07 0:15 ` Stefan Traby
2004-05-10 17:15 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-10 17:20 ` Raul Miller
2004-05-07 16:14 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-09 7:08 ` Matthew Palmer
2004-05-06 18:41 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 19:40 ` Stefan Traby
2004-05-04 18:57 ` Fwd: " Jeremy Hankins
2004-05-06 19:34 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 19:49 ` Chris Dukes
2004-05-06 19:54 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 19:56 ` Chris Dukes
2004-05-06 20:02 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 17:20 ` Martin Michlmayr
2004-05-04 17:40 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 17:54 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-04 18:44 ` Joe Wreschnig
2004-05-06 18:58 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-10 17:59 ` Branden Robinson
2004-04-30 12:02 ` Hans Reiser
2004-04-30 13:25 ` Fwd: reiser4 non-free? [OT] evilninja
2004-04-30 13:34 ` Fwd: reiser4 non-free? MJ Ray
2004-05-03 14:24 ` Claus Färber
2004-05-04 9:56 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-10 18:15 ` Branden Robinson
2004-04-30 12:20 ` Walter Landry
2004-04-30 14:55 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2004-04-30 8:34 ` Fwd: " Stewart Smith
2004-04-30 18:15 ` Steve Langasek
2004-05-02 18:51 ` Hans Reiser
2004-04-30 16:26 ` Michael Milverton
2004-04-30 16:56 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-01 5:02 ` Michael Milverton
2004-05-02 19:12 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-02 21:03 ` Stefan Traby
2004-04-30 16:56 ` MJ Ray
2004-04-30 17:13 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-02 19:42 ` MJ Ray
2004-05-02 19:55 ` Hans Reiser
2004-04-30 17:23 ` Jason Stubbs
2004-04-30 22:39 ` David Masover
2004-05-03 22:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-04 2:07 ` David Masover
2004-05-02 17:03 ` Hans Reiser
[not found] <kkKLVD.A.2NF.qPomAB@murphy>
2004-05-06 19:26 ` Humberto Massa
[not found] <pHiWpB.A.zfD.ypomAB@murphy>
2004-05-06 19:56 ` Humberto Massa
2004-05-06 20:01 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-06 20:03 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2004-05-06 20:17 ` Humberto Massa
2004-05-06 20:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-08 1:21 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-08 14:13 Humberto Massa
2004-05-09 18:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-10 11:22 Humberto Massa
2004-05-10 11:36 ` mjt
2004-05-11 1:49 ` Walter Landry
2004-05-11 1:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-11 2:33 ` Walter Landry
2004-05-11 3:53 ` Raul Miller
2004-05-11 15:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-11 16:03 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-11 16:35 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-11 17:57 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-11 19:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-15 21:52 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-11 7:10 ` Hans Reiser
2004-05-11 10:52 ` mjt
2004-05-11 17:29 Burnes, James
2004-05-11 17:53 ` Hans Reiser
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