On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:41:17PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2006, Kyle Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, certain projects like OpenAFS, while not license-
> > compatible, are certainly not derivative works.
>
> Certainly a big chunk of OpenAFS might not be, just like a big chunk
> of other non-GPL drivers for Linux.
>
> But what about the glue code? Can that be defended as not a derived
> work, such that it doesn't have to be GPL?
Actually the OpenAFS kernel code almost 100% is a derived work of both
the original AFS codebase and Linux. Just go and take a look at it,
there's shitloads of copy & paste and very deep poking into kernel internals.
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