On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 02:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > The kernel people have never claimed that user space is derivative of > the Linux kernel. That would be stupid. If that wasn't an assumption, or at least a possible interpretation of the stock GPL then the modification of the Linux COPYING file would not be there. And I think it would be quite difficult to convince a jury that a file system is any more or less derived from one of the kernels where it might be used based on the interface used to connect it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx