Licensing question

Licensing question

[Pavel Fedin]

 Hello!
 I'm a member of AROS team (http://www.aros.org) and i'd like to ask for a permission to use parts of Linux source code (small parts) in developing this system. It is licensed under APL (http://www.aros.org/license.html) so i need a permission. I don't know where to ask for it so i ask here.
 Currently i use a little part of ide-cd driver and its includes.

-- 
Best regards,
Pavel Fedin,									mailto:sonic_amiga@rambler.ru

Re: Licensing question

[DervishD]

    Hi Pavel :)

 * Pavel Fedin <sonic_amiga@rambler.ru> dixit:
>  Currently i use a little part of ide-cd driver and its includes.

    I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not a GPL-expert, neither, but AFAIK,
if you use GPL code in your project, your code becomes GPLd too.

    If you use ide-cd driver (or even a part of it), since it is GPL,
the code that uses it is GPL too. If Aros is not going to distribute
such source code, then Aros is not allowed to use GPL code.

    Ask FSF for details.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

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Re: Licensing question

[Jan Engelhardt]

"Using" GPL stuff as say, a 3rd-party library, I dunno, but:

>>  Currently i use a little part of ide-cd driver and its includes.

sounds like you copied it into your project and changed the license,
which clearly is not allowed.



Jan Engelhardt
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Re: Licensing question

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 12:38 +0100, DervishD wrote:

>     I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not a GPL-expert, neither, but AFAIK,
> if you use GPL code in your project, your code becomes GPLd too.
> 
>     If you use ide-cd driver (or even a part of it), since it is GPL,
> the code that uses it is GPL too. If Aros is not going to distribute
> such source code, then Aros is not allowed to use GPL code.

If you get the permission from the actual authors of the code you use
(in writing) then you don't need to follow the GPL, since the authors
can do whatever they want. But the problem here is, can you track down
all the authors of the said code to get them to write you a permission
slip?

>     Ask FSF for details.

No need to, just ask the authors of the actual code being used.

-- Steve

Re: Licensing question

[linux-os]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Pavel Fedin wrote:

> Hello!
> I'm a member of AROS team (http://www.aros.org) and i'd like to ask for a permission to use parts of Linux source code (small parts) in developing this system. It is licensed under APL (http://www.aros.org/license.html) so i need a permission. I don't know where to ask for it so i ask here.
> Currently i use a little part of ide-cd driver and its includes.
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Pavel Fedin,
mailto:sonic_amiga@rambler.ru

I think you will need to "inspect-to-learn", then write your own.
Don't just change the variable names.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Re: Licensing question

[Paulo Marques]

Pavel Fedin wrote:
>  Hello!
>  I'm a member of AROS team (http://www.aros.org) and i'd like to ask for a permission to use parts of Linux source code (small parts) in developing this system. It is licensed under APL (http://www.aros.org/license.html) so i need a permission. I don't know where to ask for it so i ask here.
>  Currently i use a little part of ide-cd driver and its includes.
> 

 From your license page, I can see that the license is based on the MPL 
(Mozilla public license). If you check:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

the MPL is listed as a GPL incompatible license.

This means that either the APL solves the issues of the MPL so that it 
is GPL compatible, or you have to ask the original authors permission to 
use their code (which is usually complicated because there are usually a 
lot of them...)

-- 
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

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