On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 16:36 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. People have claimed various stuff about GPL. GPL FAQ addresses these claims from the FSF standpoint as the license writers. The COPYING makes a clarification from the Linus's viewpoint. None of these are in anyway modifications of the license itself though it clarifies intend. > 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. You would need a lawyer to determine that. We are not lawyers. There is not much use of us discussing this. Rahul
