Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1

Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-26T22:40:12Z

>> 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?
>
> part of it certainly can be. The part that glues directly to linux,
> since I doubt the code just plugged in ...

Not that I have any intention of defending what they're doing or binary
modules or whatever, but ... isn't that the glue layer ... which *IS*
GPL'ed as far as I understand it? OK, so it might be offensively ugly,
but that wasn't a license violation at last count ;-)

M.