From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:40:12 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test10-mm1 Message-ID: <190230000.1069886412@flay> In-Reply-To: <1069885712.5219.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> References: <20031125211518.6f656d73.akpm@osdl.org> <20031126085123.A1952@infradead.org> <20031126044251.3b8309c1.akpm@osdl.org> <20031126130936.A5275@infradead.org> <20031126052900.17542bb3.akpm@osdl.org> <20031126132505.C5477@infradead.org> <20031126190718.GB1566@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com> <1069885712.5219.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Arjan van de Ven , Mike Fedyk Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >> Are you trying to say that something that was ported from AIX is a derived >> work because it has to read kernel internals to get its job done? > > part of it certainly can be. The part that glues directly to linux, > since I doubt the code just plugged in ... Not that I have any intention of defending what they're doing or binary modules or whatever, but ... isn't that the glue layer ... which *IS* GPL'ed as far as I understand it? OK, so it might be offensively ugly, but that wasn't a license violation at last count ;-) M. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org