On Dec 17, 2006, Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? If not, can the whole containing both the non-derivative work and the source code providing the glue without which the whole wouldn't fulfill its intended purpose be regarded as a mere aggregate, and thus not be subject to the requirement that the whole be released under the GPL? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
