On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:40:12AM +0200, Enache Adrian wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 01:36:35PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > Portions of the ext2fs source are covered by the GPL. You > > need to rebuild the kernel with "option EXT2FS". The > > FreeBSD cannot create a ext2fs.ko and comply with the GPL. > > This is weird. > Builting it as part of kernel is ok, but separate, as a module > isn't.
There a linking clausing in the GPL, which one can interpret to mean that loading ext2fs.ko into the kernel would cause the entire kernel to be tainted by the GPL. > > However, FreeBSD builds by default (as modules) the maestro3 > sound driver and the gnu fpu emulator which are GPL too. > gnu fpu appears to be dual licensed software, and covered by a BSD type license for FreeBSD's use. Don't know about maestro3. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
