Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262828AbVBCIdW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 03:33:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262827AbVBCIdW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 03:33:22 -0500 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:18191 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262596AbVBCIby (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 03:31:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4201E388.5050501@hist.no> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:40:40 +0100 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Cazabon CC: LKML Subject: Re: Copyright / licensing question References: <20050202144915.94462.qmail@web42106.mail.yahoo.com> <1107385864.21196.632.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20050202232725.GA6197@discworld.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20050202232725.GA6197@discworld.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1586 Lines: 44 Charles Cazabon wrote: >Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > >>On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 06:49 -0800, Frank klein wrote: >> >> >>>I am having some licensing questions. It would be >>>really great if you can clarify on them >>> >>>1. For explaining the internals of a filesystem in >>>detail, I need to take their code from kernel sources >>>'as it is' in the book. Do I need to take any >>>permissions from the owner/maintainer regarding this ? >>>Will it violate any license if reproduce the driver >>>source code in my book ?? >>> >>> >>Legally, not if you mention the licence of the code clearly. >> >> > >I'm not sure that's the case. Inclusion of significant chunks of source code >(not just a dozen lines or whatever) might bring the book into "derived work" >territory, and your publisher is almost certainly not going to allow >redistribution under the GPL ... > > I don't think this will be a problem. The separation between code and the rest of the book is clear, and the book isn't directly executable. :-) Even a book that mainly list source and merely offer some short explanations should be easy to get right - the _code_ is GPL so it is okay for people to photocopy it off the pages (who in their right mind would, though) but the rest of the book is printed under ordinary terms. Helge Hafting - 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/