On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:59:23AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>The License: The Anti-plagiarism license is the Gnu Public License > >>Version 2 > >>with the following modification: you may not modify, remove, or obscure > >>any > >>credits in the software unless your modification causes those credits to > >>remain > >>equally prominent and to retain their wording. You are not required to > >>display > >>the credits if the computer has no effective display mechanism, or if > >>you do not > >>distribute the software to others. > >Ok, that's a restriction that's not present in the GPL version 2 > >(otherwise it wouldn't be necessary). Section 6 of the GPL says: > > 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the > >Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the > >original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to > >these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further > >restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. > >You are not responsible for enforcing compliance by third parties to > >this License. > >Which means that code under the Anti-plagiarism license is not GPL > >compatible, since it imposes further restrictions. This would prevent > >anyone from distributing it with their kernel. In order for it to be > >distributable at all, you'd also need to demonstrate that it isn't a > >derivative work of the Linux kernel. > The kernel portion is GPL V2, this is the progs license..... Which does appear to preserve distributability of both parts. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature