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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: GPL 2(b) HUH? |
Date: | Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:23:50 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) |
Barry Margolin wrote:
It's not the scheduler that's a derivative, it's the new Linux kernel that results from replacing the scheduler in the old kernel. I.e.Linux - schedulerA + schedulerB => derivative of Linux.
But the new scheduler itself is not entangled with the copyright of Linux. And the combined work of Linux + new scheduler is a derivative of Linux only if the changes to use the new scheduler involved enough modifications to Linux to consider them a significant work of authorship.
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