From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
legal@lists.gnumonks.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Robert W. Fuller" <garbageout@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:56:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051223025638.GA31381@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43AB32C1.1080101@wolfmountaingroup.com>
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 04:12:01PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >Now the real question: If one were to have an operating system, and
> >set up a layer that simulated the API of Linux, such that Linux
> >binary modules could be loaded, is _that_ a violation of the GPL?
> No , it is not. It's called "reverse engineering".
That's entirely debatable and I would recommend the original poster
seek legal advice on this as there are many people who will claim
loading GPLd modules is paramount to linking and therefore this is a
violation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-23 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-22 16:08 Robert W. Fuller
2005-12-22 18:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-12-22 20:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-22 23:12 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-23 2:56 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2005-12-23 3:15 ` Diego Calleja
2005-12-23 3:28 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-12-23 3:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-23 3:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-12-23 4:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-12-23 3:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-23 15:35 ` Ben Slusky
2005-12-23 19:34 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-12-23 20:16 ` Scott Mansfield
2005-12-23 22:00 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-12-24 1:48 ` Horst von Brand
2005-12-24 2:41 ` Peter Williams
2005-12-24 3:25 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 11:09 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 11:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 13:18 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 13:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-04 17:46 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-04 23:03 ` Gene Heskett
2006-01-04 22:43 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2006-01-04 14:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 14:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-04 15:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2006-01-04 17:42 ` Harald Welte
2006-01-05 17:52 ` Bryan Henderson
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