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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: buffer cache
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:16:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063714569.3674.219.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030916101813.GA26576@mail.jlokier.co.uk>

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 11:18 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > I think he'd have to be on crack, but I do accept that he _can_ do that.
> 
> ...to write his own files which allow modules to work with the kernel
> would require duplicating the existing include files in great detail -
> perhaps enough to count as a derived work.
> 
> In other words, it's widely believed that he _can't_ do that.

He _can_ do it. If he actually does it by a large amount of copying,
then you are correct that he _may_ not distribute the result under a
licence other than the GPL. But he _can_ do it for his own purposes.

> Fwiw I don't have any problem with this.

What consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home I have no
problem with. I don't want to see it advocated in public, to people who
know no better.

-- 
dwmw2


      reply	other threads:[~2003-09-16 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-13  8:51 buffer cache vadiraj c s
2003-09-13 10:27 ` Jan Hudec
2003-09-13 13:14   ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-13 17:25   ` Bryan Henderson
2003-09-13 17:28     ` Jan Hudec
2003-09-14  9:32       ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-14 10:03         ` Jan Hudec
2003-09-14 10:37           ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-14 11:19             ` Jan Hudec
2003-09-15 16:18             ` Bryan Henderson
2003-09-15 16:35               ` Greg KH
2003-09-15 22:41                 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-09-16  5:13                   ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-16 10:18                     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-16 12:16                       ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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