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 576701381F3 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:39:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 549D9E0D2D; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29866E0C3B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id q59so1657577wes.41 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:38:30 -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=skdiOEdCDcH1peJi7fLrMm8xWsCONVr0gOQk5JjphcQ=; b=pljekimtwoYrn0i6dcYXtBtOBQ8VihFAvK92qfkKKWkCBDAjbzxeKpYNe+WPuc+epj FVv6Ro0B8vCsubzNPJmyJxxnNa8iiHxvfhZeJlRJt0e2TOsDZisLNTqCPdja+H8SNuex IekffYT0RNFwfsQdLALKh4qhKb5xb5etUhasYaQZi0VlB1x9LsCy8WjBBC6x6YyJEONO TLXuMvyvMYMsgF2Diwmdijm5F926JzwAiqPo91F3lzB+5djjL9bmSMTPjnBSys9nvghv eKRGFtqfkcbFzZYG7suHrWKf9Nklbr7kSWE1K3irGCVMRluJmpXUkcu79e2VrdPuAi4S MEBQ== X-Received: by 10.194.110.138 with SMTP id ia10mr11565153wjb.3.1377873510839; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-25.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bh5sm4716675wib.7.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5220AD8D.5080306@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:34:53 +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> <521DDB1F.5010306@gmail.com> <5220AC67.3080500@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <5220AC67.3080500@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 71e38e17-8718-4af9-9477-2c587a7949e3 X-Archives-Hash: 4c83109ee94de27273853850431dfa8f On 30/08/2013 16:29, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-28 7:12 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> 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. > > So, can you answer me this... > > Why would there be a problem if someone decided to create a 3rd party > overlay *not* part of the official gentoo portage tree that contained > *only* the zfs stuff, and when this overlay was installed combined with > a zfs keyword for the kernel, portage would then pull in the required > files, and automagically build a kernel with an up to date version of > zfs properly and fully integrated? > > Would this not work, *and* have no problems with licensing? > there is no problem with licensing in that case. The ebuild could even go in the portage tree, as Gentoo is not redistributing sources when it publishes an ebuild. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com