From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Posix ACL on non-GPL modules. Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 01:14:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20131012081444.GA16821@infradead.org> References: <52588A1B.3040407@massimo-maggi.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Massimo Maggi Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:59677 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750742Ab3JLIOq (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Oct 2013 04:14:46 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52588A1B.3040407@massimo-maggi.eu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:30:35AM +0200, Massimo Maggi wrote: > PS:I'm interested in using Posix ACL functions from code in another Open > Source Initiative-approved license, NOT in proprietary closed-source code. That doens't really matter. It's still a derived work of the Linux kernel if you write to Linux filesystem APIs, and it still won't be distributable. If you want to hack on it privately anyway you're of course more than free to do so, but you should not expect help. Not that'd you'd need it as you can hack anything you want into your private non-redistributed tree. Without sounding mean, but please go away with your attempts to bypas the license we put on the code and vilationg our copyrights.