Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1

Mike Fedyk
2003-11-26T19:07:18Z

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:25:05PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:29:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But I do not think that making a single kernel symbol inaccessible is an
> > appropriate way of resolving a GPFS licensing dispute.
>
> well, GFPS is a derived work with or without it. It's just that I remember
> we had that agreement about merging it only with the _GPL export. In fact
> I'm pretty sure Paul told something about GPLed distributed filesystems from
> IBM in that context..

Are you trying to say that something that was ported from AIX is a derived
work because it has to read kernel internals to get its job done?