Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Isn't it strange that those people seem to have less problems with closed
> > source than with a license that gives more freedom than the GPL? But
> > you are correct that the problem seem to be humans and not a license text.
>
> You are aware that the GPL was not really intended to be used together
> with other licenses? It was really intended to create an entire
> operating system, all of which was 100% licensed as GPL, all of which
> comprise an original work written from scratch
But it has been proven that you cannot create a 100% GPL OS.
More than 50% of all Linux distros are under different licenses...
> Stallman never makes this claim as bluntly as I've said it here, but
> it's the only intelligent reading of his intent as far as I can make
> out. This is why so many arguments arise over the GPL, the wording of
> that license was not really intended to have it co-exist with other
> licenses.
Stallman does not look at reality. The first GCC version in 1986 has been
published under something I call GPLv0 and this license did not permit a legal
use of the GCC in public.
The license was later converted to GPLv1 by using proposals I made but
Stallman still only talks about what has been in GPLv0.
> > There is nothing non-void in the GPL that stops you from distributing
> > binaries.
>
> That's a question of packaging and bundling, which is not covered by the
> GPL. But kernel code and kernel modules are not mere bundles, they are
> derivative works by virtue of how tightly they integrate with the
> kernel, and how the code can only ever run unchanged on Linux.
If a kernel uses ZFS, you have to decide on whether the kernel is a derivative
work of ZFS or whether just a collective work exists.
_Using_ ZFS definitely does not make ZFS a derivative work.
Jörg
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