From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266638AbUBRMwR (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:52:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266666AbUBRMwR (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:52:17 -0500 Received: from node-d-1fcf.a2000.nl ([62.195.31.207]:63360 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266638AbUBRMwP (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:52:15 -0500 Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Andrew Morton Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <20040217161929.7e6b2a61.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040216190927.GA2969@us.ibm.com> <20040217073522.A25921@infradead.org> <20040217124001.GA1267@us.ibm.com> <20040217161929.7e6b2a61.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-E2wu3ln5CwykfiXaVV4I" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1077108694.4479.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:51:35 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-E2wu3ln5CwykfiXaVV4I Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 01:19, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > > > > IBM shipped the promised SAN Filesystem some months ago. >=20 > Neat, but it's hard to see the relevance of this to your patch. >=20 > I don't see any licensing issues with the patch because the filesystem > which needs it clearly meets Linus's "this is not a derived work" criteri= a. it does? It needed no changes to work on linux? it only uses "core unix" apis ? it needs no changes to the core kernel? *buzz* It doesn't require knowledge of deep and changing internals ? *buzz* It doesn't need changing for various kernel versions ? I remember this baby overriding syscalls and the like not too long ago... The word "clearly" isn't correct imo. Just because something has a few lines of code that started on another OS doesn't make it "clearly" not a derived work, at least not in my eyes. --=-E2wu3ln5CwykfiXaVV4I Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQBAM1/WxULwo51rQBIRAq4WAJdHRaSX8QcjqvALd8e4QqcaJIJKAKCHnkyw Y1biVgYswaxGbDibHTN8uw== =ufJy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-E2wu3ln5CwykfiXaVV4I--