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Re: Does Hebrew U. violate the GPL?



Hetz Ben Hamo writes:
 > Guys and girls :)
 > 
 > If the Mosix project is a module only, and you don't need to modify Linux kernel
 > in order to use the Mosix, thats not GPL violation. 
 > 
 > If You need to modify the kernel (either by an attached script or by a binary
 > only) then it violate the GPL.
 > 
 > If the first case is true - then could someone could issue an official response
 > regarding the Mosix? I will publish it on slashdot.org

I'm sure they are not dumb and very well aware of the license issue.
Prof. Amnon Barak said in his lecture that MOSIX is a module with
hooks in the kernel. To me that means that there are small changes in
the kernel (which might as well be GPLed), and a module which can be
released under any license (since it's not a work based on GPL'ed
source). If that's the case, and I'm almost sure that that's the case,
then it's prefectly legal.

Alas, the MOSIX web site seems to be down (OK, I understand, Slashdot
effect and everything, but just how much time does that need to
last?!), so it's impossible to verify. I suggest that at the moment it
goes back up, you download whatever they offer for download there,
inspect everything closely, find out that it's perfectly all-right
license-wise, and publish a correction on Slashdot.


-- 
Alex Shnitman
alexsh@hectic.net, alexsh@linux.org.il
http://alexsh.hectic.net