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MOSIX is Linux-GPL compliant (Was: Does Hebrew U. violate the GPL?)



Yesterday, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo blurbed:

> IA>> was too funny. MOSIX is a military funded project, that for some
> 
> Rumours are ARPANET was once a military funded project. Would we be happy
> with 6-host internet? ;)) One for news, one for mail, one for WWW, one for
> FTP, one for plain users to play with the above, one to bind them all and
> in the... oh well, that's not about it. 

the knowledge was made publically available, only the hardware needed
(BB&N switches) was expensive. also, in the early days of the net, the
developpers actually implemented the ARPAnet for military developments
but on an ACADEMIC network of University scientists doing projects for
the army. the university boards that were supposed to give the money to
fund the computer collaboration links were very reluctant at first ("we
bought a 20 million dollar computer so some freeloader from the west
coast will be able to use CPU time on it for free?!"), and nobody
outside the scientists' user community saw the benifits. the situation
is quite different.

> IA>> I can assure you that me personally (and hopefully a few other people on
> IA>> this list, possibly people who work on the project?) will compose a
> IA>> hard-hitting open letter to HUJI if they don't find a legal solution to
> IA>> this.
> 
> The problem is that legally the right and the word of GPL might be as well
> be on theirs side, especially given that they released patches necessary
> for the kernel. And the spirit... who cares for the spirit these days
> anyway?

http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/txt_gpl.html

this should cover it nicely I hope. I'm not going to boycot HUJI
afterall, it seems :-)

however, Alan Cox annoyed the HELL out of me.