From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0935A1381F3 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93371E0CFA; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f44.google.com (mail-ee0-f44.google.com [74.125.83.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A725E0B2D for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f44.google.com with SMTP id b47so2897543eek.31 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:16:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WxK6dVkH+yut3k28XVHXZNnlfr61zC2f0CRnr3PswDo=; b=JQP/xlCDIf2UQ2bSgEvpopFlEDIwZBbqyErZ/CEJL3S+ZzhAf5MWmQtTUXyZJ2U3Fq DD6YhZfsgzryJAUph/gxe7oZlJoImv4/dsCsmZLTdql490ft14wMPuQuiVRJfAkrMUVw LlRn+Fc3Ry2UGVyG2PHnEPck+ukcRu5gCpVuzrvCFKzE3mFnOAvuQH1akpl71+ZqUlX5 /jdvm1PP5FUqKZQr+6+NLNk0LdCbiAtieKIjOGcPYwjlSgejsCIxCOcLmnvkrory6QJ7 6eA3DGQyYkF0lgBykKyl/pEas2xvmEpRgkYUysMaD9sLxmbcb9WCIVgCuvXJgTZgqLqw Ww6w== X-Received: by 10.14.223.1 with SMTP id u1mr42764088eep.10.1377688564739; Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-127-149.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r48sm36471975eev.14.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <521DDB1F.5010306@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:12:31 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo References: <439435.46090.bm@smtp104.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <521C42BA.8020201@gmail.com> <521c5afb.YPRgKxBo0FA+VIpR%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <521C6539.1020804@gmail.com> <521c6c8e.2e4CKLbW/r8l63fJ%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <521D0DE1.2010104@gmail.com> <521d14f1./s0f964VcPL8bKWo%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <521DD7D4.60709@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <521DD7D4.60709@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d5c7cee2-da03-4f51-8811-5228ba3d92e2 X-Archives-Hash: ef935196417be80cbaacd45283f36a33 On 28/08/2013 12:58, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-27 5:06 PM, Joerg Schilling > wrote: >> You wrote that modules become derivatives of the Linux kernel and this >> is the >> same as writing ZFS would become a kernel derivative. > > Just for clarification, I was talking about compiling ZFS support INTO > the kernel, not running it as a module. > > Do you claim that support for compiling ZFS directly into the kernel > also does not violate the license? > Whether the code is compile in or a module makes no difference wrt licenses as far as I know. There's no limitation on *running* the code, you can fetch and patch and edit and compile and run all you want and have it on as many of your (or the company's) machines as you want - neither license interferes with your right to do that. You may not redistribute the code though. A common misconception with these license is that they have something to do with whether you may run the code or not. That is incorrect. Free licenses are all about redistribution and your obligations about sharing when you hand the code over to others. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com