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Re: Does Hebrew U. violate the GPL?



On Sat, February 27 1999, Yoni Elhanani <biggo@netvision.net.il> wrote:
|Omer Zak wrote:
|> 
|> According to an item in Slashdot - maybe.
|> http://cachedot.slashdot.org/articles/99/02/27/076204.shtml
|If they were in Amnon Barak's lecture on thursday,
|They would know that it is the module which is binary, not anything
|inside the kernel.

I'm not sure if Amnon's lecture would have helped here (I was there
too, I also know some things about the MOSIX project since years back
and was updated in person from Amnon before the lecture), but as far
as I understand the GPL (from the flames on slashdot), MO6 don't
violate it.

|On Linux he uses the /proc fs instead.

This doesn't have anything to do with it.  It's the fact that they
managed to stuff it all into a loadable module which probably lets
them get away with this.

As for the Linux event - I bag to disagree with what was said here.
Vardi's and Amnon's lectures were indeed very interesting.  But
sitting in a room and having someone with weak Hebrew simply translate
you the Hallowin document from the screen isn't my idea of "success".
The demo at the end also was far from being impressive - it was
impressive for those of us who knew how much Hebrew support there is
(or isn't) in Linux, but at the end of the day what the new comers had
seen was simply a Hebrew Netscape. *Duh*.  The rest was simply a couple
of sales-people mumbling their usual stuff.

--Amos

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