Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:30:07 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com,
       rostedt@goodmis.org, mrmacman_g4@mac.com, legal@lists.gnumonks.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       garbageout@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:22AM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:56:38 -0800,
> Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> escribi?:
> 
> > That's entirely debatable and I would recommend the original poster
> > seek legal advice on this as there are many people who will claim
> > loading GPLd modules is paramount to linking and therefore this is a
> > violation.
> 
> So, a GPL application running on top of a BSD-licensed kernel
> (or library) is illegal? I doubt it...

application != kernel module

And your example would anyways not be a problem since GPL + BSD = GPL
(assuming the 3 clause BSD licence).

cu
Adrian

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