can you guess? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : In case of a filesystem, I do not see why the
> > filesystem could
> > : be a derived work from e.g. Linux.
> >
> > Indeed not, however AIUI the FSF do.
>
> My impression is that GPFS on Linux was (and may still be) provided as a
> binary proprietary loadable kernel module, plus some GPL glue. Not by any
> means an ideal solution, but a solution (at least one that's acceptable to
> Linus, and while other Linux developers and the FSF may be less sanguine
> about loadable proprietary kernel modules they haven't made any real fuss for
> so many years that one might suspect they're resigned to them).
It is obvious that even RMS concurs that there is no problem as he did not sue
Veritas for publishing a modified version of GNU tar.
This Veritas variant of GNU tar:
- comes with makefiles and a few inline modification in the GNU tar
original source
- Needs some libraries that are not under GPL in order to link
- These libraries are _not_ part of the "work" as they have been
written for another purpose.
- These libraries are not published in source but binary only.
- GPL §3 explains that there is a difference between "the work" and
"executable work". For the latter you need only to suply everything
to reproduce the binary.
Also note that Eben Moglen did explain why there is no problem with non-GPL
code used by GPL projects in his talk at the press conference for the first
GPLv3 draft.
To understand RMS, you need to be very careful interpreting what he says.
He often says things in order to make people believe that the GPL is more
restrictive than it actually is. His habbit verifies that he believes different.
Jörg
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