Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-16 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:50:22AM -0500, Erik Osterholm wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:52:04AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Sa

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-16 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:52:04AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 03:46:31PM -0500, Erik Osterholm wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:36:24PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > > > We're discussing what constitutes "code not goverened by the > > > terms of this license", so u

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 03:27:34PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > Between these four sections -- 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, and 3.6 -- it is not 100% > > clear what the intention (in a legal context) of the licensing as it > > applies to a "Larger Work" must be. Granted, it sure looks like no > > othe

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-15 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Chad Perrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michel Talon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:55 PM Subject: Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel > > Between these four

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:02:28PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > > Are you arguing for the pleasure of arguing or have you read the CDDL? Why, yes, I have read the rest of it. In fact, if you read further back up the thread, you'll see that I quoted section 3.6 and discussed its relationship to s

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 03:46:31PM -0500, Erik Osterholm wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:36:24PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 4/15/07, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 10:01 AM 4/14/2007, Colin Percival wrote: >GPL/CDDL taint doesn't cross dynamic linking. Richard Stallman claims it does. The proposed Version 3 of the GPL makes it even more explicit. Look... instead of letting this degenerate into one

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:01 AM 4/14/2007, Colin Percival wrote: >GPL/CDDL taint doesn't cross dynamic linking. Richard Stallman claims it does. The proposed Version 3 of the GPL makes it even more explicit. --Brett Glass ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:36:24PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:09:46PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: > > Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: > > >> Brett Glass wrote: > > >> > > >> So CDDL does not require to license

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:27:15PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:27 PM 4/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >No, you are not. Because it appears that the whole thing is not covered > >by the CDDL. > > Read the license. If you distribute a product that includes the code, you are > bound

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:09:46PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: > >> Brett Glass wrote: > >> > >> So CDDL does not require to license add-ons under CDDL, GPL does. In > >> this terms, FreeBSD is basically a

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:27 PM 4/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >No, you are not. Because it appears that the whole thing is not covered >by the CDDL. Read the license. If you distribute a product that includes the code, you are bound by the obligations listed in the license (to distribute source code, not e

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:55:39PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: >> Brett Glass wrote: >> >> So CDDL does not require to license add-ons under CDDL, GPL does. In >> this terms, FreeBSD is basically an add-on to the ZFS module ;-). > > The most relevant part of the CDDL seems

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 10:47:09AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:12 AM 4/14/2007, Bill Moran wrote: > > >How is this any worse than the GPLed stuff in /usr/src/contrib? > > It's in the kernel. And the announcement went as far as to say that > it is "part of FreeBSD." >From what I've seen th

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14/04/07, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 10:55 AM 4/14/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: >Example: >You create a binary from two source files. > >1. one BSD one CDDL. If you distribute this binary, you have to provide >the CDDL part (and all modifications to it) as source under CDDL >l

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:55 AM 4/14/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: > >> Example: >> You create a binary from two source files. >> >> 1. one BSD one CDDL. If you distribute this binary, you have to provide >> the CDDL part (and all modifications to it) as source under CDDL >> license. You are not

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:55 AM 4/14/2007, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Example: You create a binary from two source files. 1. one BSD one CDDL. If you distribute this binary, you have to provide the CDDL part (and all modifications to it) as source under CDDL license. You are not required to provide the source of the

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Colin Percival
Brett Glass wrote: > There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is "viral." It "infects" > products with which it is combined. This is why zfs isn't part of GENERIC. We've distributed tainted kernel modules for a long time, and there's nothing wrong with that -- GPL/CDDL taint doesn't cross dynamic

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Brett Glass wrote: > There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is "viral." It "infects" > products with which it is combined. You can read the text of the > CDDL at > > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php > > Section 3.1 of the CDDL is the portion which is essentially equivalent > to the

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:12 AM 4/14/2007, Bill Moran wrote: >How is this any worse than the GPLed stuff in /usr/src/contrib? It's in the kernel. And the announcement went as far as to say that it is "part of FreeBSD." --Brett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://l

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:51:23 -0600 Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is "viral." It "infects" > products with which it is combined. You can read the text of the > CDDL at > > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php > > Section 3.1 of the CDDL

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Brett Glass
There is a huge problem in that the CDDL is "viral." It "infects" products with which it is combined. You can read the text of the CDDL at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php Section 3.1 of the CDDL is the portion which is essentially equivalent to the GPL. This is part of the nastines

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Brett Glass wrote: > I just read with some concern the announcement that Sun's ZFS has been > integrated into the FreeBSD kernel. This would mean, unfortunately, that > FreeBSD is now covered by the CDDL, which is a viral license similar to > the GPL. Has FreeBSD abandoned its longstanding practice

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:21:41PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > I just read with some concern the announcement that Sun's ZFS has > been integrated into the FreeBSD kernel. This would mean, > unfortunately, that FreeBSD is now covered by the CDDL, which is a > viral license similar to the GPL. Ha