RE: BK kernel workflow

From: David Schwartz
Date: Fri Oct 29 2004 - 12:03:44 EST



> What someone does in the privacy of his home is outside the scope of the
> GPL, this means the kernel repository is the private toy of Linus and he
> leaves the decision who may play with him to Larry.

This position is conditioned on two facts, either:

1) Linus does not distribute his BK tree, or

2) Linus' BK tree is not a derivative work of the Linux kernel

If both of these are false, then the tree must be covered by the GPL. I
think 2 is clearly false.

DS


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