Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263386AbUJ2Rci (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:32:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263382AbUJ2RXY (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:23:24 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:55429 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263429AbUJ2RUd (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:20:33 -0400 Message-Id: <200410291720.i9THKPas013399@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.1 10/11/2004 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: davids@webmaster.com Cc: Manu Abraham , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: BK kernel workflow In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:41:42 PDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1682831821P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:20:25 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1502 Lines: 42 --==_Exmh_-1682831821P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:41:42 PDT, David Schwartz said: > This position is conditioned on two facts, either: > > 1) Linus does not distribute his BK tree, or > > 2) Linus' BK tree is not a derivative work of the Linux kernel > > If both of these are false, then the tree must be covered by the GPL. I > think 2 is clearly false. The *contents of the source of the tree itself* are indeed GPL, and I doubt that anybody argues otherwise. The actual method(s) used to *STORE* said contents are *NOT* GPL - if you argue that the fact of storing the source in a BK tree renders the BK itself GPL, then we should stroll over to Redmond with a laptop that has a copy of the source untarred into an NTFS filesystem, and demand that they cough up the source for NTFS. Is anybody arguing that doing that would GPL NTFS? If no, then it doesn't GPL any of the BK bits either. --==_Exmh_-1682831821P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFBgnvZcC3lWbTT17ARAo/0AJ9YatQemlyT3tTSRYh9SSf7fjNXHACfQ871 9zgmN22M67bsZ8PgkrNtN4Q= =3TcG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1682831821P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/