On Thursday 28 October 2004 22:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please move the discussion to FreeBSD-chat - now
> In a message dated 10/28/04 4:49:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't think that Allot modifies the Linux kernel. I wouldn't expect > >them to do so and I don't see an obvious reason why they should (*). > >Obviously some of their custom stuff needs to run inside kernel, but I > >rather think they enhance the kernel with some loadable modules or > >whatever (does Linux have KLDs?). > > Then you either know nothing about programming or nothing about their > products. Do you think they do gigabit bandwidth management, with > features not in the kernel, from user space? Plus, if they were using an > unmodified kernel, why not provide the source? Put it on the machine. > Whats the harm? > > > A while back, I fast-read a post of Linus Torvalds to a mailing list > > > >saying why he thinks that binary-only enhancements to linux must be GPL > >licenced (and I believed the statemant was discussed on a FreeBSD-list > >also). His argument was that by using the kernel headers your work > >automatically becomes a derived work, thus it needs to be licensed under > >the GPL. I seem to recall the discussion was about nVidia's closed > > Modules use headers and are not "GPLed", so clearly you're just > plain wrong. > > Linus is just a big dope anyway, so who cares what he thinks? He's like > Kerry. He thinks whatever is convenient for him to think at the time. > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
