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Re: [fam] FAM on Solaris 8+

To: rusty@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [fam] FAM on Solaris 8+
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 00:35:18 -0700
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On Thu, 08 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Any chance of you removing the slur about Solaris from the fam webpage
> > now?
>
> Oh all right!  (I was wondering whether anyone would notice that...)
>
> > The next thing we need to do is get imon working as a Solaris kernel
> > module.
>
> Keep in mind that the imon code is GPL'd--although I've watched "Ally
> MacBeal" enough times to consider myself well-versed in legal issues, I
> missed the episode where they talked about whether you had to make your
> kernel available under the GPL in order to link with a kernel module
> containing/derived from GPL'd code.

You should read kde-licensing and you will learn about every possible 
interpretation of that aspect of the GPL. I would, in addtion to the GPL, 
also license it as BSD... assuming at least that you don't object against Sun 
including it with a next version of its OS.

Cheers,
Waldo
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