From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:30:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20051223033007.GJ27525@stusta.de> References: <43AACF77.9020206@sbcglobal.net> <496FC071-3999-4E23-B1A2-1503DCAB65C0@mac.com> <1135283241.12761.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43AB32C1.1080101@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051223025638.GA31381@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20051223041522.ac36635d.diegocg@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Chris Wedgwood , 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 Return-path: Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:23305 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030392AbVLWDaJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:30:09 -0500 To: Diego Calleja Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051223041522.ac36635d.diegocg@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:22AM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:56:38 -0800, > Chris Wedgwood escribi=F3: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > So, a GPL application running on top of a BSD-licensed kernel > (or library) is illegal? I doubt it... application !=3D kernel module And your example would anyways not be a problem since GPL + BSD =3D GPL (assuming the 3 clause BSD licence). cu Adrian --=20 "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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html