Re: [Linux-streams] Re: Performance enhanced LiS

[Francois-Xavier KOWALSKI]

David Grothe wrote: Yes, but, observe the following.? As everyone knows, if the GPL every had to be argued in court it would make a plate of spaghetti look simple by comparison.? Maybe SCO and IBM will wade into that swamp. But that is why LiS is LGPL, it vastly simplifies licensing considerations and encourages porting of existing STREAMS drivers from other platforms. -- Dave > From [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Mon Dec 12 04:32:37 1994 [...] My gut feeling is that LGPL is too coupled with user-space (libraries) considerations to be clearly interpreted in kernel space. Better use the "GPL with additionnal rights" (which is allowed by the LSM), similar to the one used by the kernel itself. The additionnal rights would be something sitting on top of the current Linux license (I am not a legal guy, so the following is a bit rough): LiS provides an implementation of SVR4 UNIX STREAMS on Linux. STREAMS being a non Linux-specific standardized kernel-space interface, using this interface from kernel modules can in no way be considered as a GPL "mere aggregation". One the same hand, ported STREAMS kernel module using only the UNIX STREAMS interface provided by LiS are not aware of the? Linux-specific internals & therefore cannot be considered as a derivative work. Comments? -- FiX