On 12-Apr-07, at 8:49 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:51:06PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote:
On April 12, 2007 5:33:00 PM -0500 Nicolas Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The same applies to Linux, except that many people believe that
the GPL
would make such a port a derivative (because it'd link with the
GPLed
linux kernel) of GPLed code and that CDDL and GPL are incompatible,
meaning that you couldn't distribute Linux w/ ZFS. The "linking
derives" argument is controversial and not tested in court.
well since this thread has devolved :-) i'll just say i find that
to be a
specious argument. like every CS problem, one can always solve
the linking
problem with another level of abstraction. which (IMHO) renders the
"linking derives" argument invalid.
Sigh. We have devolved. Every thread on OpenSolaris discuss lists
seems to devolve into a license discussion.
I have seen mailing list posts (I'd have to search again) that
indicate
[that some believe] that even dynamic linking via dlopen()
qualifies as
making a derivative.
The LGPL exists to clarify this issue.
--Toby
If true that would mean that one could not distribute an OpenSolaris
distribution containing a GPLed PAM module. Or perhaps, because in
that
case the header files needed to make the linking possible are not
GPLed
the linking-makes-derivatives argument would not apply.
Nico
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