Re: GPL only modules

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:41:17PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2006, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@xxxxxxx> 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?

Actually the OpenAFS kernel code almost 100% is a derived work of both
the original AFS codebase and Linux.  Just go and take a look at it,
there's shitloads of copy & paste and very deep poking into kernel internals.


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