Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org Wrote:
> One recent controversy involved MOSIX, who allegedly violated GPL by
> hacking the kernel itself rather than sticking to writing modules.
We in the MOSIX team did not violate any copyright or do anything illegal:
It is true that parts of our software did not comply with the GPL,
but there was no reason they should have.
The software we released in the first versions of MOSIX for Linux-2.2.x
could be divided to 5 different categories:
1) Some user sources - GPL (although they didn't have to be so);
2) Modifications to existing Linux kernel files - GPL;
3) New kernel files that #include or even borrow a few lines
from the Linux kernel - GPL;
4) New kernel files, mainly header-files (#include) that do not #include
or otherwise use a single character from the Linux kernel -
These had a dual-license:
a) GPL for the world
b) private for our own use as authors
5) Binary code (eg. module) derived from our sources and contained no single
character from GPL-code and did not even #include any GPL'd file, only
headers from category #4 used in our private/owner capacity.
Since our binary module did not contain anything from Linux, we could issue
it in any way we pleased: we did not even need to consider the GPL or
obtain any license or permission from anybody whatsoever.
Amnon Shiloh -- the HUJI MOSIX group.
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