Subject: Re: IDE Support & How to find the base address ?
To: Michael R Zucca <mrz5149@cs.rit.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/12/1998 18:25:19
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Michael R Zucca wrote:

> I just had a look. They "get around" the licensing restriction by including
> the code in a directory called "COPYLEFT". Very weak. Such shennanigans
> could cause a picky person to declare the whole MkLinux Mach kernel as GPL'd
> if I remember the terms GPL correctly.

Oh, that they can do. You can certainly have GPL'd source sitting in your
/sys directory tree. FreeBSD and OpenBSD do.

what you _can't_ do is distribute a kernel which has both GPL'd and
non-GPL'd stuff in it. So you or I could take such source, and compile our
own kernels for home with GPL'd code in them. We just couldn't give anyone
else that kernel. So it can't go into GENERIC or INSTALL kernels.

lkm's are a different story. You can stick a GPL'd lkm into a non-GPL'd
kernel and live happily ever after.

Take care,

Bill