From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Diego Calleja Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:15:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20051223041522.ac36635d.diegocg@gmail.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 Return-path: Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.197]:20115 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030390AbVLWDPj convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:15:39 -0500 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i30so326344wxd for ; Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:15:39 -0800 (PST) To: Chris Wedgwood In-Reply-To: <20051223025638.GA31381@taniwha.stupidest.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org El Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:56:38 -0800, Chris Wedgwood escribi=F3: > 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... - 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