On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> 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.

So how exactly do they get away with distributing the Mach Kernel,
precompiled, with that in there?  It can definitely read from HFS
partitions, since the pre-DR3 installer boots off of an HFS partition
(i.e. the mach_servers, bootstrap.conf... stuff that'd normally be on
the MkLinux partition is on an HFS partition for the installer).


Dunno,
David

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