Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:16:08 -0600 | From | "Major'Trips'" <> | Subject | Re: Is it legal for me to do that? |
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On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 01:15:00PM +0100, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 01:16:34AM -0500, papiraki@kdb.ml.org wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am a student in computer sciences, and I've been asked to do my > > > final project on the wonderfull world of OSs, more specifictly, I > > > have to take the pc-xinu "Opperating System" and make it better. > > > > > > Some of the features I have to develop is virtual memory, file > > > system and I have to write a boot loader, and, also, if I have > > > time, it would be nice to make it load some programs into memory > > > and execute them and also to check for permissions for file access. > > > > Well, you asked whether it is legal to use Linux sources to do that. > > > > I think it is, as long as you leave Copyright messages etc. intact. This > > implies that you have to tell everybody that you used Linux sources to do > > your job. > that's not enough! Linux is GPL'ed, that means that _all_ software which > uses source-code-pieces from it or is linked against (parts of) it has to > be under GPL too. (If you want to survive: don't discuss this with RMS - > he looks much closer on GPL-paragraphs than any other :-) ) > > > Go and check with your supervisor, if they allow you to do that. > > > > I guess no: They want you to do your own thing. > > Just try to ask that for permission to write some Linux-extensions. > Another filesystem and another executable-format (eg. an extended ELF > would be nice). An easier to handle LILO or ..............
Speaking of LILO. This might be fairly old news ... But I boot Via a SCSI drive and added a spare IDE drive to the system recently. Now I find I have to unmount all the ide mount points && "alias ide-disk off" in the /etc/conf.modules && modprobe -r ide-disk then run lilo else Lilo complains about the SCSI Not beeing the first device in the boot order. Now .. unfortunately I understand this is how life used to be .. but I also know that I have never cared nor has the kernel ever cared that I don't select the IDE Device geometries in the BIOS and allow the SCSI to boot the system and then let Linux find the IDE devices. Anyone know a simple way around this problem?
> > This way it would (IMHO) have two advantages: you can profit from a > running system which is very stable and proved. Your writings would get > back to community and would (perhaps) get used. > > > You can still profit from your Linux knowledge. Go and read the Linux > > sources and try to understand the concepts. I think most authors of the > > source code will help you understand it, when you ask them. And of course, > > nobody prevents you from using some of the concepts. Science is not about > > ignoring intelligent thoughts by others! > > Also Tanenbaum is your friend, of course. > > Konrad > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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