From: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ESX Server - GPL violation - found proof !?!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:12:22 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912301008160.25318@bbs.intern> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82fx6sc04v.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Gerhard Wiesinger:
>
>> More clearly stated that ESX SERVER is based on Linux driver GPL code
>
> Historically, the drivers you mentioned have had close ties to the
> corresponding FreeBSD drivers and were dual-licensed. So it is
> possible that Vmware obtained a non-GPL version of those drivers.
>
The mentioned version ncr53c8xx-3.4.3b is from Sat May 12 12:00 2001. From
sources one can see that e.g. Alan Cox, Ronald van Cuijlenborg (and some
others) made already GPL v2 changes in V1.10 and V1.9 from 1998 and 1997.
Therefore derived work is from GPL v2 code.
See for details:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=blob;f=drivers/scsi/ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx;h=c91e792cab278e33811d377018b4251fa9887f29;hb=a07d8a1940dce21de61a9c3e38b887047d8e3629
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.37.y.git;a=blob;f=drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c;h=cde30dc38ba6f3f1b90b9bc60414ff0406b1e558;hb=a07d8a1940dce21de61a9c3e38b887047d8e3629
Ciao,
Gerhard Wiesinger
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http://www.wiesinger.com/
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2009-12-30 8:31 ESX Server - GPL violation - found proof !?! Gerhard Wiesinger
2009-12-30 8:54 ` Florian Weimer
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