On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:41:17PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Dec 17, 2006, Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On the other hand, certain projects like OpenAFS, while not license- > > compatible, are certainly not derivative works. > > Certainly a big chunk of OpenAFS might not be, just like a big chunk > of other non-GPL drivers for Linux. > > But what about the glue code? Can that be defended as not a derived > work, such that it doesn't have to be GPL?
Actually the OpenAFS kernel code almost 100% is a derived work of both the original AFS codebase and Linux. Just go and take a look at it, there's shitloads of copy & paste and very deep poking into kernel internals. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
