From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Mike Borrelli <mike@nerv-9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Input on the Non-GPL Modules
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:09:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011018220908.A24643@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.4.21.0110181150210.8832-100000@dsl092-007-245.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.4.21.0110181150210.8832-100000@dsl092-007-245.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net>; from mike@nerv-9.net on Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:52:36AM -0700
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:52:36AM -0700, Mike Borrelli wrote:
> Where (in the conceptual layering of the kernel) does the code cease to be
> a derived work and become a "normal use" as allowed in the clase added by
> Linus:
>
> NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
> services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
> of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
"XFree86 server" is "normal use", as is XFree86 loadable device driver,
but kernel DRI driver module is not.
> Cheers,
> -Mike
/Matti Aarnio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-18 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-18 18:52 Mike Borrelli
2001-10-18 19:09 ` Matti Aarnio [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-18 18:55 Borrelli, Michael J
2001-10-18 15:29 Greg Boyce
2001-10-18 16:00 ` M. R. Brown
2001-10-18 16:32 ` Jan Niehusmann
2001-10-18 17:08 ` Tony Hoyle
2001-10-18 17:15 ` Jan Niehusmann
2001-10-18 19:01 ` Tim Bird
2001-10-18 19:38 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-20 22:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-20 22:08 ` Ben Greear
2001-10-20 22:20 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-10-21 14:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-20 22:58 ` Craig Milo Rogers
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