Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:31:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:31:23 -0500 Received: from relay03.cablecom.net ([62.2.33.103]:34703 "EHLO relay03.cablecom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:31:10 -0500 Message-Id: <200110311831.f9VIVeR09294@mail.swissonline.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: LLX Reply-To: llx@swissonline.ch To: Rik van Riel , Timur Tabi Subject: Re: Module Licensing? Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 19:31:40 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The irrelevance here is IYHO ... it may well be judged that > since these two portions of the work need each other in order > to function, the thing really is one work. a) vmware for linux needs a linux kernel to work. does that meen you whant to gpl it? b) you can write abstraction modules for different os's. and the non-gpl module works with all of them. so my module does not need the linux abstraction module it also works with the free- BSD module. the only #ifdef in my module will be around the module registration code. or i write a propriatary loader, so that even the same binary works for different os's -- ****** It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice ! ****** - 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/