Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964830AbWCPS7j (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:59:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964838AbWCPS7j (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:59:39 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:32896 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964830AbWCPS7i (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:59:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:58:40 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Zachary Amsden cc: Rik van Riel , Anthony Liguori , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Virtualization Mailing List , Xen-devel , Andrew Morton , Dan Hecht , Dan Arai , Anne Holler , Pratap Subrahmanyam , Christopher Li , Joshua LeVasseur , Chris Wright , Jyothy Reddy , Jack Lo , Kip Macy , Jan Beulich , Ky Srinivasan , Wim Coekaerts , Leendert van Doorn Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/24] VMI i386 Linux virtualization interface proposal In-Reply-To: <441658A2.4090905@vmware.com> Message-ID: References: <200603131758.k2DHwQM7005618@zach-dev.vmware.com> <441642EE.80900@us.ibm.com> <4416460A.2090704@vmware.com> <441658A2.4090905@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 18 > > But most importantly, I really don't understand how it is possible to make a > patch to the Linux kernel and not release it under GPL. > If the patch is so ultimatively trivial that there is only a few solutions (one or two), then there is no use in gpl'ing that flock of patchcode, in which case I think, it is (or at best should be) public domain. In conjunction with the patched function, they will/should become GPL. Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/