From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267666AbUBRRz5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:55:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267668AbUBRRz5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:55:57 -0500 Received: from mail6.fw-bc.sony.com ([160.33.98.73]:3570 "EHLO mail6.fw-bc.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267666AbUBRRzz (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 12:55:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4033A91B.3030801@am.sony.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:04:11 -0800 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arjanv@redhat.com CC: Andrew Morton , paulmck@us.ibm.com, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org 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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 =============================