From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4033A91B.3030801@am.sony.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:04:11 -0800 From: Tim Bird MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range References: <1077108694.4479.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> In-Reply-To: <1077108694.4479.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: arjanv@redhat.com Cc: Andrew Morton , paulmck@us.ibm.com, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: I should know better than to stir up a hornets nest by discussing GPL issues on this list... :) Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 01:19, Andrew Morton wrote: >>Neat, but it's hard to see the relevance of this to your patch. >>I don't see any licensing issues with the patch because the filesystem >>which needs it clearly meets Linus's "this is not a derived work" >>criteria. > > it does? ... > it needs no changes to the core kernel? *buzz* Actually, this would tend towards an interpretation that it was NOT a derived work. That is, if a the Linux kernel must be modified in order to run with a piece of software, that's one indicator that the piece of software (when standing alone) may not be derived from the kernel. I am purposely avoiding the "but what about when it's linked" argument. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Co-Chair CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer Sony Electronics E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com ============================= -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org