On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 01:19, Andrew Morton wrote:

"Paul E. McKenney" [off-list ref] wrote:

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IBM shipped the promised SAN Filesystem some months ago.

Neat, but it's hard to see the relevance of this to your patch.

I don't see any licensing issues with the patch because the filesystem
which needs it clearly meets Linus's "this is not a derived work" criteria.

it does?
It needed no changes to work on linux?
it only uses "core unix" apis ?
it needs no changes to the core kernel? *buzz*
It doesn't require knowledge of deep and changing internals ? *buzz*
It doesn't need changing for various kernel versions ?

I remember this baby overriding syscalls and the like not too long
ago...

The word "clearly" isn't correct imo. Just because something has a few
lines of code that started on another OS doesn't make it "clearly" not a
derived work, at least not in my eyes.