-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, at 4:01pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: > > Legally, they have to. Kimberlite is GPL, and any product based on it > > must also be GPL. > > No, any product incorporating Kimberlite's *code* has to be GPL.
Which, as I understand it, is precisely what they're doing. > RHS might simply be using Kimberlite as the foundation of a suite of > cluster tools, in which case the rest of it can be whatever they want. Quite true. But realize that the people who wrote kimberlite are the same people (more or less) who are working on RH's product. Realize also that kimberlite does not provide adequate data integrity for certain services (which is what distinguished it from Convolo). What they're doing is basically (again, as I understand it) using Kimberlite's code as a basis for a new product to replace Convolo. Much of the code will be reused, I gather. It is certainly true though, that any programs they develop which are independent of Kimberlite and (a key point here) do not link against any of its libraries (all of which were licensed under the GPL, AFAIK) are not subject to the GPL. My suspicion is that there will be very few of those. > The GPL is probably one of the most misunderstood documents in the > computer industry. Only because people bother to try; I think the same would be true of any EULA, if people bothered to read them. It seems that you and I agree in our interpretation of the GPL, and I'm fairly confident that I've interpreted it correctly. However, I make the disclaimers I make mainly because a) I'm not a lawyer and far from expert in interpreting the legal jargon of licenses and contracts; and because b) as much as I'd like to, I do not know everything. =8^) - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8rM/BdjdlQoHP510RAibDAJ9UJF6iiRXZTg+ohScbRb0vJV/ngACgiSQR mQYuP15yBjepJarjdSdTLyE= =BoCD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
