Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:14:00 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: GPL only modules |
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:41:17PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Dec 17, 2006, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote: > > > On the other hand, certain projects like OpenAFS, while not license- > > compatible, are certainly not derivative works. > > Certainly a big chunk of OpenAFS might not be, just like a big chunk > of other non-GPL drivers for Linux. > > But what about the glue code? Can that be defended as not a derived > work, such that it doesn't have to be GPL?
Actually the OpenAFS kernel code almost 100% is a derived work of both the original AFS codebase and Linux. Just go and take a look at it, there's shitloads of copy & paste and very deep poking into kernel internals.
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