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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Isn't it strange that those people seem to have less problems with closed |
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> > source than with a license that gives more freedom than the GPL? But |
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> > you are correct that the problem seem to be humans and not a license text. |
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> You are aware that the GPL was not really intended to be used together |
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> with other licenses? It was really intended to create an entire |
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> operating system, all of which was 100% licensed as GPL, all of which |
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> comprise an original work written from scratch |
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But it has been proven that you cannot create a 100% GPL OS. |
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More than 50% of all Linux distros are under different licenses... |
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> Stallman never makes this claim as bluntly as I've said it here, but |
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> it's the only intelligent reading of his intent as far as I can make |
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> out. This is why so many arguments arise over the GPL, the wording of |
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> that license was not really intended to have it co-exist with other |
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> licenses. |
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Stallman does not look at reality. The first GCC version in 1986 has been |
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published under something I call GPLv0 and this license did not permit a legal |
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use of the GCC in public. |
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The license was later converted to GPLv1 by using proposals I made but |
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Stallman still only talks about what has been in GPLv0. |
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> > There is nothing non-void in the GPL that stops you from distributing binaries. |
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> That's a question of packaging and bundling, which is not covered by the |
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> GPL. But kernel code and kernel modules are not mere bundles, they are |
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> derivative works by virtue of how tightly they integrate with the |
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> kernel, and how the code can only ever run unchanged on Linux. |
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If a kernel uses ZFS, you have to decide on whether the kernel is a derivative |
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work of ZFS or whether just a collective work exists. |
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_Using_ ZFS definitely does not make ZFS a derivative work. |
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Jörg |
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