In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ben Pfaff wrote: > [...] > > Linux is not designed to support pluggable schedulers, and in > > fact Linus has expressly said that he does not want Linux to > > easily support dropping in alternate schedulers. Thus, > > implementing a new scheduler in Linux is fairly likely to require > > significant modifications to Linux outside the new scheduler > > itself. > > "Significant modifications to Linux outside the new scheduler itself" > may well constitute a derivative work. But that don't change the status > of the new scheduler itself being entirely original and not a derivative > work. Grok it now? I don't think anyone was saying that the new scheduler is a derivative. It's the new Linux that includes the new scheduler that's a derivative of the old Linux. -- Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
